A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Adventure Novels
Bardavío, José María. La novela de aventuras. Marid: SCGL, 1977.
Brantlinger, Patrick. "Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880-1914." English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 28.3 (1985).
_____. "Imperial Gothic: Atavism and the Occult in the British Adventure Novel, 1880-1914." In Reading Fin de Siècle Fictions. Ed. Lyn Pykett. (Longman Critical Readers). London and New York: Longman, 1996.*
Carnero, Guillermo. "Sensibilidad y aventura en Vicente Martínez Colomer." In Carnero, Estudios sobre narrativa y otros temas dieciochescos. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca / PUZ, 2009. 133-56.*
Cawelti, John G. Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula-Stories as Art and Popular Culture. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1976.*
Cruz Casado, Antonio. "Para la poética de la narrativa de aventuras peregrinas." In Estado actual de los estudios sobre el Siglo de Oro. Ed. Manuel García Martín et al. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 1993. 261-68.*
Fraser, Robert. Victorian Quest Romance: Stevenson, Haggard, Kipling and Conan Doyle. (Writers and Their Work). Plymouth: Northcote House / British Council, 1998.*
García Gual, Calos. "Sobre los lectores y las novelas de aventuras." Boletín de la Institución Libre de Enseñanza 59-60 (2006). Special issue on "Invitación a la lectura".
Green, Martin. Dreams of Adventure, Deeds of Empire. New York: Basic Books, 1979.
_____. "Adventurers Stake Their Claim: The Adventure Tale's Bid for Status, 1876-1914." In Decolonizing Tradition: New Views of Twentieth-Century "British" Literary Canons. Ed. Karen R. Lawrence. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1992. 70-87.*
Herald, Diana Tixier. Genreflecting: A Guide to Reading Interests in Genre Fiction. Englewood (Colorado): Libraries Unlimited, 1982. 5th ed. 2000.* (Historical novel, Westerns, Detective fiction, adventure, SF, fantasy, romance, horror).
Lytton, Edward Bulwer. A Word to the Public. 1847. (On adventure novels).
Phillips, Richard. Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure. London: Routledge, 1997.
Robbins, Ruth. "Masculine Romance, Cultural Capital, and Crisis." In Robbins, Pater to Forster, 1873-1924. (Transitions). Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003.
Santaulària i Capdevila, Isabel. "'He Comes Back Badder and Bigger than Ever!': Adapting the Masculine and Negotiating the Feminine in Treasure-Hunting Adventure Narratives." Links and Letters 8 (2001) [issued Nov. 2002]: 83-94.*
Tadié, Jean-Yves. Le Roman d'aventures. Paris: PUF, 1982.
White, Andrea. Joseph Conrad and the Adventure Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.
Anthologies
Mil y una aventuras: Los mejores relatos de aventuras aparecidos en Valdemar (1987-2003). (El Club Diógenes, 207). Madrid: Valdemar, 2003. 2nd ed. 2004.*
Films
La liga de los hombres extraordinarios. Dir. Stephen Worrington. With Sean Connery. Spanish DVD. (Viernes de Estreno). Spain: ABC / Twentieth Century Fox, 2005.*
Literature
London, Jack. Adventure. New York: Macmillan, 1911.
Prizes
Cornwell, Patricia. Postmortem. 1990. (Edgar Award, Creasey Award, Macavity award, Prix du Roman d'Aventure).
Series
(Choose Your Own Adventure). New York: Bantam, 1983.
_____. (Elige tu propia aventura, 8). Barcelona: Timun Mas, 1983.*
(El País Aventuras). Madrid: El País, c. 2004.*
See also Best Sellers; Adventures.
