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“Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American...
In 1919 a romance novel by a little-known Derbyshire woman was published, featuring the story of an aristocratic but tomboyish English virgin who, in her travels through French colonial Algeria, is...
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Georgette Heyer: The Nonesuch of Regency Romanceby Laura Vivanco
Georgette Heyer’s “invariable answer, when asked about her private life, was to refer the questioner back to her books. You will find me, she said, in my work” (Aiken Hodge ix).[1] Although The...
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Love in the Digital Library: A Search for Racial Heterogeneity in E-Booksby...
[End Page 1] Introduction and Background The romance genre is one of the bestselling genres in the United States (US). It is also the largest genre read in e-book (electronic book) format in the...
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Troubleshooting Post-9/11 America: Religion, Racism, and Stereotypes in...
In the years since 2001, the number of “desert,” “sheik,” or “Orientalist” romance novels published has “exponentially increased” (Burge 182).[1] Alongside the greater prominence of soldier-heroes...
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Historicizing The Sheik: Comparisons of the British Novel and the American Film
In 1919 a romance novel by a little-known Derbyshire woman was published, featuring the story of an aristocratic but tomboyish English virgin who, in her travels through French colonial Algeria, is...
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Georgette Heyer: The Nonesuch of Regency Romance
Georgette Heyer’s “invariable answer, when asked about her private life, was to refer the questioner back to her books. You will find me, she said, in my work” (Aiken Hodge ix).[1] Although The...
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Love in the Digital Library: A Search for Racial Heterogeneity in E-Books
[End Page 1] Introduction and Background The romance genre is one of the bestselling genres in the United States (US). It is also the largest genre read in e-book (electronic book) format in the...
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Troubleshooting Post-9/11 America: Religion, Racism, and Stereotypes in...
In the years since 2001, the number of “desert,” “sheik,” or “Orientalist” romance novels published has “exponentially increased” (Burge 182).[1] Alongside the greater prominence of soldier-heroes...
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On Teaching, Not Teaching, and Teaching The Sheik
In the Beginning (Notes and Topics) In mid-July, 2005, I opened a new Word file and sketched out the reading list for ENG 285, my first class devoted to popular romance fiction. The quarter before I...
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Garçon Manqué: A Queer Rereading (of) The Sheik
Introduction [End Page 1] Near the end of E.M. Hull’s bestselling 1919 novel The Sheik, Ahmed Ben Hassan, an Arabian sheik who has abducted and raped the English Diana Mayo, lies delirious in his tent,...
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