Desert passions
Subtitle: Orientalism and romance novels
By: by Hsu-Ming Teo
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780292739383; 9780292739390
Subjects: Orientalism in literature; In literature; East and West in literature; Women in literature; History and criticism; Love stories
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Loving the Orient : the romantic East and European literature; title: The rise of the desert romance novel; title: E. M. Hull's The Sheik; title: The spectacular East : romantic Orientalism in America; title: The Orientalist historical romance novel; title: The contemporary sheik romance novel : the historical background; title: Harems, houris, heroines, and heroes; title: From tourism to terrorism; title: Reader responses to the modern Orientalist romance novel.