Horatio Alger Essays
Interpellation, Superstructure, and False Consciousness: Examining 'Ragged Dick' Through the Marxist Lens College
Ragged Dick
After a series of chapters were first published in an American magazine, Horatio Alger’s novel Ragged Dick was met with a fanatic readership and widespread critical acclaim. In March 1868, advertisements of the forthcoming full-length novel raved,...
Recurring Literary Elements in Horatio Alger Novels College
Ragged Dick
Horatio Alger Jr. was the quintessential class optimist: born to privilege, if not actual wealth, and convinced that poverty could be easily cured with simple hard work, proactivity and good character. The formula didn’t quite work for him...
Clothes Make the Man College
Ragged Dick
In his “rags to riches” story, Ragged Dick or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks, by Horatio Alger, Jr., we are introduced to the character of Richard Hunter (known on the streets as Ragged Dick), a bootblack working in the rough...
Recurring Literary Elements in Horatio Alger Novels College
Ragged Dick
Horatio Alger Jr. was the quintessential class optimist: born to privilege, if not actual wealth, and convinced that poverty could be easily cured with simple hard work, proactivity and good character. The formula didn’t quite work for him...