In my Editor’s Note for Volume 8 of the journal I promised that a number of changes and essays would roll out in 2020. Some…
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“We have been dwelling in Arcadia, my green girl.” Damerel to Venetia. The historical-romance novels of Georgette Heyer (1902–74), written over a 50-year period from…
Comments closedIntroduction What is it like to teach classes on popular romance fiction in a country where the genre has been more or less invisible for…
Comments closedThree cheers for E. M. Hull, who wrote That masterpiece, “The Sheik!” I proudly state I’ve read it eight- No, twenty times, this week. (Anthony)…
Comments closedIntroduction [End Page 1] There is no doubt that the appeal of E.M. Hull’s The Sheik comes from its monstrous hero. Diana Mayo, the stonily…
Comments closedIntroduction [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…
Comments closedIntroduction [End Page 1] Critical analysis of the romance novel, so far, has mainly focused on gender politics. One of the few clusters of texts…
Comments closedThe year 1919 saw the publication of T.S. Eliot’s “Poems” as well as his seminal essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent”; Virginia Woolf’s second novel…
Comments closedWhen The Sheik was first published in 1919 it became notorious for its sexual content. While it still holds an important place in the history…
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