Description
Book SynopsisRanging from “high” literature to erotica and popular fiction, this pioneering cultural history explores the gendered societal and political purposes that have been served by tales of romance between Western women and Arab men.
Trade ReviewSerious students of the genre will find this scholarly work complements recent studies such as Pamela Regis’s
A Natural History of the Romance Novel…Teo’s extensive survey of scholarship on the subject covers films, blogs, and other useful source material. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty. * Choice *
...is a virtuosic work of intellectual history that sieves sparkling nuggets of meaning out of a vast torrent of racy orientalist romance novels and their film adaptations in the Anglophone world. * American Quarterly *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Loving the Orient: The Romantic East and European Literature
- Chapter 2. The Rise of the Desert Romance Novel
- Chapter 3. E. M. Hull’s The Sheik
- Chapter 4. The Spectacular East: Romantic Orientalism in America
- Chapter 5. The Orientalist Historical Romance Novel
- Chapter 6. The Contemporary Sheik Romance Novel: The Historical Background
- Chapter 7. Harems, Houris, Heroines, and Heroes
- Chapter 8. From Tourism to Terrorism
- Chapter 9. Reader Responses to the Modern Orientalist Romance Novel
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
