How Long to Read Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood

How Long Does it Take to Read Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood by Ryan K. Anderson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Gilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty-thousand-word stories featuring his fictional creation Frank Merriwell, a student athlete at Yale University who inspired others to emulate his example of manly boyhood. Patten and his publisher, Street and Smith, initially had only a general idea about what would constitute Merriwell’s adventures and who would want to read about them when they introduced the hero in the dime novel Tip Top Weekly in 1896, but over the years what took shape was a story line that capitalized on middle-class fears about the insidious influence of modern life on the nation’s boys. Merriwell came to symbolize the Progressive Era debate about how sport and school made boys into men. The saga featured the attractive Merriwell distinguishing between “good” and “bad” girls and focused on his squeaky-clean adventures in physical development and mentorship. By the serial’s conclusion, Merriwell had opened a school for “weak and wayward boys” that made him into a figure who taught readers how to approximate his example. In Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood, Anderson treats Tip Top Weekly as a historical artifact, supplementing his reading of its text, illustrations, reader letters, and advertisements with his use of editorial correspondence, memoirs, trade journals, and legal documents. Anderson 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 rooted in an assumed pecking order of class, race, and gender.

How long is Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood?

Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood by Ryan K. Anderson is 319 pages long, and a total of 82,621 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 31 minutes to read Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood aloud.

What Reading Level is Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood?

Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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