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- catalog abstract ""Between the Crimean War and the Second World War, British boys grew into manhood reading the exploits of Jack Harkaway, Sexton Blake and Billy Bunter. The boys story paper was the precursor to the comic book, presenting exhilarating tales of escapist adventure that influenced the worldview of readers. In this lively cultural history, Kelly Boyd breaks with previous studies that concentrated on the middle-class yarns of the Boy's Own Paper to explore the stories that most boys actually read. She recreates the fiction factories that supplied boys with thrills each week - the world of the entrepreneur publishers, Edwin J. Brett, Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe), and D.C. Thomson, as well as Frank Richards, the prolific author of the Greyfriars stories. Their formulaic tales contained assumptions about imperialism, race and women. But most of all they taught boys what it meant to be a man. Kelly Boyd employs the story papers to demonstrate how masculinity was reshaped and transformed during the heyday of empire. This is an important contribution to the social history of popular culture, childhood and gender."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12684505.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""Between the Crimean War and the Second World War, British boys grew into manhood reading the exploits of Jack Harkaway, Sexton Blake and Billy Bunter. The boys story paper was the precursor to the comic book, presenting exhilarating tales of escapist adventure that influenced the worldview of readers. In this lively cultural history, Kelly Boyd breaks with previous studies that concentrated on the middle-class yarns of the Boy's Own Paper to explore the stories that most boys actually read. She recreates the fiction factories that supplied boys with thrills each week - the world of the entrepreneur publishers, Edwin J. Brett, Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe), and D.C. Thomson, as well as Frank Richards, the prolific author of the Greyfriars stories.".
- catalog description "Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction : fiction for the working lad -- PART I. READERS AND WRITERS -- 2. Boys' lives : boys' education, work and leisure, 1855-1940 -- 3. Publishers and strategies : from family firms to mass marketing -- PART II. 'REVEL IN YOUR BOYHOOD' : VARIETIES OF MASCULINITY -- 4. Victorian manliness, upper-class heroes and the ideal of character, 1855-1900 -- 5. The democratization of manliness at the turn of the century, 1890-1920 -- 6. Balance, self-control and obedience in the inter-war years -- PART III. MANLINESS AND THE 'OTHER' -- 7. 'Manhood achieved' : imperialism, racism and manliness -- 8. Comrades, chums and competitors : images of women in the boys' story paper -- 9. Conclusion : on heroes and hero worship -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-267) and index.".
- catalog description "Their formulaic tales contained assumptions about imperialism, race and women. But most of all they taught boys what it meant to be a man. Kelly Boyd employs the story papers to demonstrate how masculinity was reshaped and transformed during the heyday of empire. This is an important contribution to the social history of popular culture, childhood and gender."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "x, 274 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0333641728".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "823/.80992826 21".
- catalog subject "Boy's own paper.".
- catalog subject "Boys Books and reading Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "Boys in literature.".
- catalog subject "Children's stories Publishing Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Children's stories, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Masculinity in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR878.C513 B69 2003".
- catalog subject "Periodicals Publishing Great Britain History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction : fiction for the working lad -- PART I. READERS AND WRITERS -- 2. Boys' lives : boys' education, work and leisure, 1855-1940 -- 3. Publishers and strategies : from family firms to mass marketing -- PART II. 'REVEL IN YOUR BOYHOOD' : VARIETIES OF MASCULINITY -- 4. Victorian manliness, upper-class heroes and the ideal of character, 1855-1900 -- 5. The democratization of manliness at the turn of the century, 1890-1920 -- 6. Balance, self-control and obedience in the inter-war years -- PART III. MANLINESS AND THE 'OTHER' -- 7. 'Manhood achieved' : imperialism, racism and manliness -- 8. Comrades, chums and competitors : images of women in the boys' story paper -- 9. Conclusion : on heroes and hero worship -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "Manliness and the boys' story paper in Britain : a cultural history, 1855-1940 / by Kelly Boyd.".
- catalog type "text".