Award winner Gary Hoppenstand is a professor in the department of English at Michigan State University. He has published numerous books and more than sixty scholarly articles on topics ranging from popular culture studies to literary studies to media studies. He lives in Holt, Michigan.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: A Brief Story of AdventurePower and Politics as Adventure: Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses The Swashbuckling Pirate as Rebel Hero: Rafael Sabatini’s Captain Blood: His OdysseyJustified Bloodshed and the Origins of the Vigilante Hero:Robert Montgomery Bird’s Nick of the Woods The Romance of Adventure: Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel Revolution and Revenge: Rafael Sabatini’s ScaramoucheEmpires in Decline: C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne’s The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis The Ruritanian Romance: Anthony Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda Science Fantasy and the Adventure Story: Edwin L. Arnold’s Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation Empire and the Bright Face of Danger: A.E.W. Mason’s The Four Feathers Soldiering for Fortune: Robert E. Howard’s “The Treasures of Tartary”Mystery as Adventure: Elizabeth Peters’ The Last Camel Died at Noon Redemption and Honor: P.C. Wren’s Beau GestePopular Fiction as Thriller Propaganda: Ian Fleming’s From Russia, with LoveDinosaur Doctors and Jurassic Geniuses: The Changing Image of the Scientist Adventurer in the Lost World AdventureBibliographyIndex

Award winner Gary Hoppenstand is a professor in the department of English at Michigan State University. He has published numerous books and more than sixty scholarly articles on topics ranging from popular culture studies to literary studies to media studies. He lives in Holt, Michigan.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: A Brief Story of AdventurePower and Politics as Adventure: Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses The Swashbuckling Pirate as Rebel Hero: Rafael Sabatini’s Captain Blood: His OdysseyJustified Bloodshed and the Origins of the Vigilante Hero:Robert Montgomery Bird’s Nick of the Woods The Romance of Adventure: Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel Revolution and Revenge: Rafael Sabatini’s ScaramoucheEmpires in Decline: C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne’s The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis The Ruritanian Romance: Anthony Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda Science Fantasy and the Adventure Story: Edwin L. Arnold’s Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation Empire and the Bright Face of Danger: A.E.W. Mason’s The Four Feathers Soldiering for Fortune: Robert E. Howard’s “The Treasures of Tartary”Mystery as Adventure: Elizabeth Peters’ The Last Camel Died at Noon Redemption and Honor: P.C. Wren’s Beau GestePopular Fiction as Thriller Propaganda: Ian Fleming’s From Russia, with LoveDinosaur Doctors and Jurassic Geniuses: The Changing Image of the Scientist Adventurer in the Lost World AdventureBibliographyIndex

Award winner Gary Hoppenstand is a professor in the department of English at Michigan State University. He has published numerous books and more than sixty scholarly articles on topics ranging from popular culture studies to literary studies to media studies. He lives in Holt, Michigan.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: A Brief Story of AdventurePower and Politics as Adventure: Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses The Swashbuckling Pirate as Rebel Hero: Rafael Sabatini’s Captain Blood: His OdysseyJustified Bloodshed and the Origins of the Vigilante Hero:Robert Montgomery Bird’s Nick of the Woods The Romance of Adventure: Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel Revolution and Revenge: Rafael Sabatini’s ScaramoucheEmpires in Decline: C.J. Cutcliffe Hyne’s The Lost Continent: The Story of Atlantis The Ruritanian Romance: Anthony Hope’s The Prisoner of Zenda Science Fantasy and the Adventure Story: Edwin L. Arnold’s Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation Empire and the Bright Face of Danger: A.E.W. Mason’s The Four Feathers Soldiering for Fortune: Robert E. Howard’s “The Treasures of Tartary”Mystery as Adventure: Elizabeth Peters’ The Last Camel Died at Noon Redemption and Honor: P.C. Wren’s Beau GestePopular Fiction as Thriller Propaganda: Ian Fleming’s From Russia, with LoveDinosaur Doctors and Jurassic Geniuses: The Changing Image of the Scientist Adventurer in the Lost World AdventureBibliographyIndex