SOURCE: "The Boudoir Tales of Horatio Alger, Jr.," in Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. X, No. 1, 1976, pp. 215–26.
In the following essay, Scharnhorst looks at the humanitarian moralism of Alger's adult fiction.
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