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American Children's Literature, 1890-1940: Heroic Tales That Shaped Adult Lives.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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American children's literature, 1890-1940; heroic tales that shaped adult lives.

Dizer, John T.

Edwin Mellen Pr.

2005

260 pages

$119.95

Hardcover

Mellen studies in children's literature; v.8

PS374

In this collection of essays Dizer describes the heroes of juvenile fiction in the works of Annie Fellows Johnston, Edward Stratemeyer, D.T. Henty, Howard R. Garis, and Percy Keese Fitzhugh, as well as series about the Putnam Hall Military Academy and automobiles. He looks at books with rural settings and juvenile villains, boys' ...

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