Gary Hoppenstand Collection
Collection Overview
Abstract
The Gary Hoppenstand Collection consists of approximately 0.2 linear feet of correspondence and manuscript materials pertaining to notable authors in the mystery and adventure genres, ranging in date from 1894 to around 1992.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1894-1992, undated
Extent
0.2 Cubic Feet (1 archive box)
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence, manuscript materials, and photographs of notable authors in the adventure and mystery genres. Dr. Hoppenstand is the collector of these materials, not a correspondent. Represented are Anthony Hope, Guy Boothby, George Locke, Stanley Weyman, Graham Greene, Robert Sidney Bowen, and S.S. Van Dine among others.
Biographical / Historical
Gary Hoppenstand is a Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University. Dr. Hoppenstand was one of the earliest graduates of BGSU's popular culture and American Culture Studies programs. Hoppenstand’s major research areas are genre and narrative studies in popular fiction, graphic novels, film. and television. He has published twenty-four books, including nine scholarly reprint editions of classics novels for Signet Classics and Penguin Classics, and over sixty scholarly articles on topics ranging from popular culture studies, to literary studies, to media studies.
His last book, Perilous Escapades: Dimensions of Popular Adventure Fiction, published in 2018, features an anthology of his essays on classic adventure literature. Hoppenstand’s early work, as editor of the periodical, Midnight Sun, was nominated twice for the prestigious “World Fantasy Award,” and his Popular Fiction: An Anthology (Longman) won the Popular Culture Association’s John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer category in 1997. As the series editor of the six-volume World Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, he was the recipient of the Ray and Pat Browne Award for the Reference/Primary Source Work category (2007).
Dr. Hoppenstand is a former Area Chair, Vice-President, and President of the national Popular Culture Association, and he served for eleven years as the editor of The Journal of Popular Culture, the most widely read and cited peer-reviewed scholarly journal in its field in the world. He has won several top scholarly honors from the national Popular Culture Association—including “The Governing Board Award” in 2008 (“for his contributions to popular culture studies and the Popular Culture Association”). At Michigan State University, he has won the College of Arts and Letters 2008 “Paul Varg Alumni Award for Faculty” (“in recognition of outstanding teaching and scholarly achievement”), and Michigan State University’s 2008 “Distinguished Faculty Award” (“in recognition of outstanding contributions to the intellectual development of the University”). He is the recipient of The 2020 Lynn Bartholome Eminent Scholar Award from the Popular Culture Association.
Conditions Governing Access
No known access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Coopyright restrictions may apply. Researchers using this collection assume full responsibility for conforming to the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright, and are responsible for securing permissions necessary for publication or reproduction.
Language of Materials
English
Separated Materials
Gary Hoppenstand has donated a significant number of bound volumes to the Browne Popular Culture Library, which can be found with the heading "Gary C. Hoppenstand Adventure Fiction Collection" in the Library's catalog.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The collection was transferred to the Browne Popular Culture Library by Gary Hoppenstand beginning in 2001.
Processing Information
This finding aid was prepared by Manuscripts and Outreach Archivist Steve Ammidown in September 2020.
Source
- Hoppenstand, Gary (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the Gary Hoppenstand Collection
- Author
- Steve Ammidown
- Date
- September 2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin