The Depth of "Dick": Deconstructing Horatio Alger
Incalculably complex is the legacy of Horatio Alger (1832-1899). Alger had written poetry and several "grown up" novels before striking it big with his best known work Ragged Dick, or Street Life in New York With the Bootblacks (1868). There followed a torrent of juvenile literature in a similar vein, usually with similar titles: Mark […]