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Author:
Teo, Hsu-Ming, 1970-
Title:
Desert passions : Orientalism and romance novels / Hsu-Ming Teo.
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
University of Texas Press,
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
viii, 344 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Orientalism in literature.
Love stories--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
East and West in literature.
Orient--In literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-337) and index.
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, heroines, and heroes -- From tourism to terrorism -- Reader responses to the modern Orientalist romance novel.
ISBN:
0292739397 (lib ebk)
9780292739390 (lib ebk)
0292739389 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292739383 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)777327411
LCCN:
2012003761
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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