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- Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood: The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story
Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood: The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story
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Gilbert Patten made a career of generating serialized stories featuring his fictional creation Frank Merriwell, a student athlete who inspired others to emulate his example of manly boyhood. This study blends social and cultural history, with the history of business, gender, and sport, along with a general examination of childhood and youth in this fascinating study of how a fictional character was used to promote a homogeneous "normal” American boyhood.
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