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Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940
Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain A Cultural History 18551940
Author: Kelly Boyd
In this pioneering work about the precursor to the comic book, Kelly Boyd traces the evolution of the boys' story paper and its impact on the imaginative world of working-class readers. From the penny dreadful and the Boy's Own Paper to the tales of Billy Bunter and Sexton Blake, this cultural form shaped ideas about gender, race, class, ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780333641729
ISBN-10: 0333641728
Publication Date: 1/18/2003
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Hardcover
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