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Desert Passions : Orientalism and Romance Novels by Hsu-Ming Teo; University of Texas is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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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 imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today’s mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural his
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Hsu-Ming Teo; University of Texas
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780292739383
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (4 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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