A curious thing happened to Edgar Rice Burroughs on the way to oblivion. When the 74-year-old novelist died in 1950, most of his 24 Tarzan books and ten Martian sagas were long out of print and far ...

Cultural historians adore Tarzan. He emerged in 1912 as if called to battle against the New Woman, the New Negro, the new fascination with homosexuality, and all those new immigrants, and to provide a ...