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Ragged Dick, or, Street life in New York with boot blacks : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism

Title: Ragged Dick, or, Street life in New York with boot blacks : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Horatio Alger, Jr. ; edited by Hildegard Hoeller.
Author: Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899.
Publication: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2008.

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Additional Authors

Hoeller, Hildegard, 1960-

Description

xii, 281 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm.

Summary

An annotated edition of Horatio Alger's 1868 novel, which follows a poor shoeshine boy as he overcomes his life of poverty on the streets of lower Manhattan through honesty and hard work, and includes critical essays and reviews of the text, a chronology of the author's life and works, a select bibliography, and other resources.

Series Statement

A Norton critical edition

Uniform Title

Ragged Dick
Norton critical edition.

Alternative Title

Ragged Dick
Street life in New York with boot blacks

Subject

Genre/Form

Bildungsromans.
Fiction.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (page 281).

Contents

The Text of Ragged Dick -- Contexts -- Alger on His Art and Life -- Friar Anselmo / Horatio Alger, Jr. -- Are My Boys Real? / Horatio Alger, Jr. -- Advice from Horatio Alger, Jr. / Edward G. Alcorn -- Writing Stories for Boys / Horatio Alger, Jr. -- The New York City Background -- New York and Its People / F. J. Ottarson -- Map: Dick's tour through the New York City of the 1860s -- Street Children / James D. McCabe, Jr. -- Outcast Children / Edward Crapsey -- Homeless Boys / Charles Loring Brace -- From Orphan Trains and Their Precious Cargo / Clark Kidder -- Criticism -- Contemporary Reviews -- Tangled Threads -- Putnam's Magazine -- Who Should Read Alger? Alger and the Public Library -- The Public Library, and Its Choice of Books / Charles C. Cutter -- Sensational Fiction in Public Libraries / S. S. Green -- Peccator: As to Novel-reading -- A Confession -- Class Adaptation in the Selection of Books -- The Fiction Question / S. S. Green -- Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, Vermont: Annual Report -- Young Men's Association, Buffalo: Annual Report -- Unsigned Review: Books for Young People -- Alger's legacy: parodies and responses -- A Self-Made Man / Stephen Crane -- The Alger Complex / Gilbert W. Gabriel -- Tom the Young Kidnapper, or, Pay Up and Live / James Thurber -- The Death of Horatio Alger / Amiri Baraka -- Legendary Alger Was a Homosexual / Victor Wilson -- Demythologizing Alger / Gary Scharnhorst -- Critical Essays -- Selling the Self-Made Woman / Mary Roth Walsh -- "The Gentle Boy from the Dangerous Classes"; Pederasty, Domesticity, and Capitalism in Horatio Alger / Michael Moon -- Pandering in the Public Sphere: Masculinity and the Market in Horatio Alger / Glenn Hendler -- Freaks and the American Dream: Horatio Alger, P. T. Barnum, and the Art of Humbug / Hildegard Hoeller -- Horatio Alger, Jr.: A Chronology.

Call Number

JFD 08-1888

ISBN

9780393925890
0393925897

LCCN

2006053090

OCLC

78773890

Author

Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899.

Title

Ragged Dick, or, Street life in New York with boot blacks : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Horatio Alger, Jr. ; edited by Hildegard Hoeller.

Imprint

Edition

1st ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

A Norton critical edition

Norton critical edition.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 281).

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Added Author

Hoeller, Hildegard, 1960-

Hoeller, Hildegard, 1960- editor.

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Research Call Number

JFD 08-1888

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