Alger, Horatio Jr. | Further Reading
FURTHER READING
Beauchamp, Gorman. "Ragged Dick and the Fate of Respectability." Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Summer 1992): 324-45.
In this discussion of Ragged Dick, Beauchamp argues that critics in the past overlooked the preeminent theme of respectability, an ideal he finds relatively scarce in contemporary American popular culture.
Hendler, Glenn. "Pandering in the Public Sphere: Masculinity and the Market in Horatio Alger." American Quarterly, Vol. 48, no. 3 (September 1996): 415-38.
Hendler argues that Alger's novels were intended to indoctrinate boys in preparation for the male, financial, public sphere.
Nackenoff, Carol. "Of Factories and Failures: Exploring the Invisible Factory Gates of Horatio Alger, Jr." Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 25, no. 4 (Spring 1992): 63-80.
Nackenoff argues that Alger's moralism...
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