Hsu-Ming Teo is a cultural historian and novelist based at Macquarie University. She coedited Cultural History in Australia and has published a range of articles and book chapters on Orientalism, travel writing, fiction, and popular culture. She won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for her first novel, Love and Vertigo, which was also short-listed for two other fiction awards. Her second novel, Behind the Moon, was short-listed for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

Serious students of the genre will find this scholarly work complements recent studies such as Pamela Regis’s A Natural History of the Romance Novel…Teo’s extensive survey of scholarship on the subject covers films, blogs, and other useful source material. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty. (Choice)  ...is a virtuosic work of intellectual history that sieves sparkling nuggets of meaning out of a vast torrent of racy orientalist romance novels and their film adaptations in the Anglophone world. (American Quarterly)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Loving the Orient: The Romantic East and European LiteratureChapter 2. The Rise of the Desert Romance NovelChapter 3. E. M. Hull’s The SheikChapter 4. The Spectacular East: Romantic Orientalism in AmericaChapter 5. The Orientalist Historical Romance NovelChapter 6. The Contemporary Sheik Romance Novel: The Historical BackgroundChapter 7. Harems, Houris, Heroines, and HeroesChapter 8. From Tourism to TerrorismChapter 9. Reader Responses to the Modern Orientalist Romance NovelConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Hsu-Ming Teo is a cultural historian and novelist based at Macquarie University. She coedited Cultural History in Australia and has published a range of articles and book chapters on Orientalism, travel writing, fiction, and popular culture. She won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for her first novel, Love and Vertigo, which was also short-listed for two other fiction awards. Her second novel, Behind the Moon, was short-listed for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

Serious students of the genre will find this scholarly work complements recent studies such as Pamela Regis’s A Natural History of the Romance Novel…Teo’s extensive survey of scholarship on the subject covers films, blogs, and other useful source material. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty. (Choice)  ...is a virtuosic work of intellectual history that sieves sparkling nuggets of meaning out of a vast torrent of racy orientalist romance novels and their film adaptations in the Anglophone world. (American Quarterly)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Loving the Orient: The Romantic East and European LiteratureChapter 2. The Rise of the Desert Romance NovelChapter 3. E. M. Hull’s The SheikChapter 4. The Spectacular East: Romantic Orientalism in AmericaChapter 5. The Orientalist Historical Romance NovelChapter 6. The Contemporary Sheik Romance Novel: The Historical BackgroundChapter 7. Harems, Houris, Heroines, and HeroesChapter 8. From Tourism to TerrorismChapter 9. Reader Responses to the Modern Orientalist Romance NovelConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Hsu-Ming Teo is a cultural historian and novelist based at Macquarie University. She coedited Cultural History in Australia and has published a range of articles and book chapters on Orientalism, travel writing, fiction, and popular culture. She won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for her first novel, Love and Vertigo, which was also short-listed for two other fiction awards. Her second novel, Behind the Moon, was short-listed for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

Serious students of the genre will find this scholarly work complements recent studies such as Pamela Regis’s A Natural History of the Romance Novel…Teo’s extensive survey of scholarship on the subject covers films, blogs, and other useful source material. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers/faculty. (Choice)  ...is a virtuosic work of intellectual history that sieves sparkling nuggets of meaning out of a vast torrent of racy orientalist romance novels and their film adaptations in the Anglophone world. (American Quarterly)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. Loving the Orient: The Romantic East and European LiteratureChapter 2. The Rise of the Desert Romance NovelChapter 3. E. M. Hull’s The SheikChapter 4. The Spectacular East: Romantic Orientalism in AmericaChapter 5. The Orientalist Historical Romance NovelChapter 6. The Contemporary Sheik Romance Novel: The Historical BackgroundChapter 7. Harems, Houris, Heroines, and HeroesChapter 8. From Tourism to TerrorismChapter 9. Reader Responses to the Modern Orientalist Romance NovelConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex