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Desert passions : Orientalism and romance novels /
The Sheik--E. M. Hull's best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino--kindled "sheik fever" across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically "Oriental" swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitatio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.