Perilous Escapades: Dimensions of Popular Adventure Fiction
Gary Hoppenstand
Perilous Escapades: Dimensions of Popular Adventure Fiction
Gary Hoppenstand
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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.
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