Ragged Dick
Excerpts from Ragged Dick, or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks
By Horatio Alger
Published in 1868
During the Gilded Age (the era of industrialization from the early 1860s to t...
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Horatio Alger (1832-1899) was the American author of prodigiously popular and influential juvenile novels and biographies.Horatio Alger was born in Revere, Mass., the son of a Unitarian minister. The ...
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Perhaps the quality which has been most closely identified with the American spirit is success. Success--upward mobility, material prosperity acquired through hard work and shrewd ability--has been fo...
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In the following essay, Coad argues that though Horatio Alger's work has been relatively neglected by scholars, Alger's ideals are still reflected in America's materialistic cultu...
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In the following essay, Scharnhorst looks at the humanitarian moralism of Alger's adult fiction.
Horatio Alger, Jr., whose fame rests upon his prodigious output of over a hundred juvenile no...
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In the following essay, Lhamon places Alger as a central influence in defining American mores and developmental ideals, especially in regard to the relationship of the individual to society.
Imamu ...
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In the following chapter, Scharnhorst and Bales provide biographical and historical information on the last decade of Alger's life, with special attention to his politics and economic ideology....
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In the following essay, Moon discusses Alger's blend of homoeroticism and capitalist nostalgia.
Throngs of Ragged Children bent on earning or cadging small sums of money filled the streets o...
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In the following chapter, Nackenoff identifies Alger's readership within the changing historical context of increased literacy and cheaper availability of books.
Your kind and flattering le...
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Stephen Crane and Horatio Alger are both authors who discuss issues that deal with New York City in the 1800's. They are different in one major way. Crane is known as more of a realist, whereas Alger ...
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Ragged Dick
Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger, Jr.
Critical Essay by Bruce E. Coad
Alger and Crane: Mythic Vs. Realist
