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Desert passions : Orientalism and romance novels /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Teo, Hsu-Ming, 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2012]
Subjects:
East and West in literature.
Women in literature.
Love stories > History and criticism.
Orientalism in literature.
Orient > In literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Loving the Orient : the romantic East and European literature
  • The rise of the desert romance novel
  • E. M. Hull's The Sheik
  • The spectacular East : romantic Orientalism in America
  • The Orientalist historical romance novel
  • The contemporary sheik romance novel : the historical background
  • Harems, houris, heroines, and heroes
  • From tourism to terrorism
  • Reader responses to the modern Orientalist romance novel.