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Article: Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940.(Book Review)
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- June 22, 2004
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 North American Conference on British Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Kelly Boyd. Manliness and the Boys' Story Paper in Britain: A Cultural History, 1855-1940. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. x, 274. $75.00. ISBN 0-333-64172-8.
In this lively, highly enjoyable work, Kelly Boyd traces the history of popular periodicals aimed at British adolescents. Unlike most other work on this topic, which has concentrated on elite publications like the Boy's Own Paper, Boyd's research focuses on lesser studied mass-market papers like Boys of England, the Gem, the Magnet, and the Rover, which had lower middle-class and working-class readerships. In fact, with weekly circulations of several hundred thousand, these papers dominated boys' imaginations ...
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