In the Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance (2021) Jonathan A. Allan stated that “[o]ne unresolvable conundrum, or at least one that has ongoing permanence,…
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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…
Comments closedIn 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…
Comments closedIn 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…
Comments closed[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…
Comments closedIn 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…
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