On Edgar Rice Burroughs
Cohen, Matt, ed. Brother Men: The
Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston.
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On Tarzan
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On Masculinity
Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A
Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States,
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Kasson, John F. Houdini, Tarzan, and the
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Leverenz, David. “The Last Real Man in America:
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Cawelti, John. Adventure, Mystery, and
Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture. Chicago:
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Deloria, Philip. Playing Indian. New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998.
Grant, Madison. The Passing of the Great
Race; or, The Racial Basis of European History. New York:
Scribner, 1916.
Green, Martin. Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of
Empire. New York: Basic Books, 1979.
Keim, Curtis A. Mistaking Africa: Curiosities
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Press, 1999.
Kipling, Rudyard. Something of Myself for My
Friends Known and Unknown. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran,
1937.
Lawrence, D. H. 1923. Studies in Classic
American Literature. New York: Penguin, 1977.
Slotkin, Richard. Gunfighter Nation: The Myth
of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America. Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.
Stanley, Henry Morton. In Darkest Africa; or,
The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Pasha, Governor of
Equatoria. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1890.
Torgovnick, Marianna. Gone Primitive: Savage
Intellects, Modern Lives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
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