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Desert passions : Orientalism and romance novels / Hsu-Ming Teo.
Van Pelt Library PN56.3.O74 T46 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Teo, Hsu-Ming, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orientalism in literature.
- Romance fiction--History and criticism.
- Romance fiction.
- Women in literature.
- East and West in literature.
- Orient--In literature.
- Orient.
- Draper.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780292739383
- 0292739389
- 9780292739390
- 0292739397
- OCLC:
- 825109325
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