Perilous Escapades

Perilous Escapades Dimensions of Popular Adventure Fiction

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Publisher's Synopsis

Award-winning popular culture scholar and expert, Gary Hoppenstand, assembles a collection of essays published over the past few decades that examine a vast array of popular adventure fiction. Some of the most famous novels in all of popular fiction are featured in these essays, such as Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel and Rafael Sabatini's Captain Blood. Hoppenstand examines the cultural and literary impact of these great works of entertainment, often presenting forgotten classics in a new light. Informative analysis offers the interested reader of popular fiction important insights into the adventure story of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in American and British literature.

Book information

ISBN: 9781476670553
Publisher: McFarland
Imprint: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.08709
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: viii, 175
Weight: 227g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 8mm