Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940.(Book Review)

Publication: Journal of Popular Culture

Publication Date: 01-NOV-04

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Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940. Kelly Boyd. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

This well-argued cultural history of the British boys' story paper, the precursor to the comic book, departs from previous studies of British juvenile reading from the Crimean War onward. They tend to focus on G. A. Henty, R. M. Ballantyne, and W. H. G. Kingston, or the middle-class stories in the Boy's Own Paper, and to explore the fiction factories...

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