Introduction

At this point in the state of literary criticism, the publication history of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan of the Apes is widely known. In what has become an oft-told account, Burroughs’s narrative about the son of British nobility who is raised by “apes” in the African jungle was serialized in the pulp publication All-Story Magazine in 1912 before being released in book form by the Chicago-based press A. C. McClurg in 1914.