Introduction [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…
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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 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…
Comments closedA pivotal sequence in The Sheik (George Melford, 1921), a screen adaptation of E.M. Hull’s novel, acts as a microcosm of the film. We see…
Continue readingIn Defense of the Perverse: Reflections on <em>The Sheik</em> (George Melford, 1921)
Comments closed Introduction [End Page 1] The Sheik is an important text in the sheikh romance tradition. First published in 1919, E. M. Hull’s The Sheik has…
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…
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