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In wartime, the battle for hearts and minds can extend across the entire population. In Europe, as the Great War raged, young people were the target of propaganda through various media aimed specifically at them and, as Kimberley Reynolds has observed, in Britain, "the vast majority of what was available for boys to read before and during the First World War was steeped in a form of patriotic nationalism that often centred on military heroes and British victories" (121). In America, too, much of the series fiction for boys of the time, noted for the staple ingredients of adventures and heroic characters, presented similar sentiments. From the outset, many of these American fiction series for boys threw themselves squarely behind the cause of the Allied forces, but not all did, and not always in the same ways. American series fiction for boys was certainly conscripted into service on the battlegrounds of various and changing ideological and political battles in America, both before and after 1917, when America entered the war-including shifts in pro-and anti-German sentiment, the influence of propaganda (both American and British) and legislation from 1917 onwards, and America's sen

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Author

Pavlik, Anthony

Publisher

Project MUSE; Johns Hopkins University Press (ISSN 1080-6563)

Published

2017

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)