sheikh romance | Romance Scholarship DB

Ali, Kecia (2017) Troubleshooting Post-9/11 America: Religion, Racism, and Stereotypes in Suzanne Brockmann’s Into the Night and Gone Too Far Journal of Popular Romance Studies 6:

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Suzanne Brockmann

religion/spirituality

United States of America

war/armed forces

Anderson, Rachel (1974) The Purple Heart Throbs: The Sub-Literature of Love London: Hodder and Stoughton

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

religion/spirituality

Charlotte M. Yonge

Christian romance

Rhoda Broughton

Rita, pen name of Mrs. Eliza Margaret Humphreys

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Effie Adelaide Rowlands, also known as Madame Albanesi

Margaret Baillie-Saunders

Evelyn Everett-Green

Florence Barclay

Robert Hitchens

Violet Winspear

Margaret Pedler

Gilbert Frankau

Joan Butler, pen name of R. W. Alexander

medical romance

Lucilla Andrews

Kate Norway/Olive Norton

fashion/clothing

Awad, Amal (2021) Desert dreamings and sheikh-lit Meanjin 80.3:114-118

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Jackie Ashenden

Bach, Evelyn (1997) Sheik Fantasies: Orientalism and Feminine Desire in the Desert Romance Hecate 23.1:9-40

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Violet Winspear

Margaret Pargeter

Rebecca Stratton

Bettinotti, Julia Noizet, Pascale (1989) Le récit en littérature populaire: répétition et invention dans le roman d’amour Protée 17.2:35-40

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Harlequin Mills & Boon

Bettinotti, Julia Truel, Marie-Françoise (1997) Lust and Dust: Desert Fabula in Romances and Media Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:184-194

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Bettinotti, Julia Truel, Marie-Françoise (1997) Lust and Dust: voyages de femmes, roman d’amour ou les enjeux d’une fabula Études littéraires 30.1:59–69

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Bettinotti, Julia Jeannesson, Gaëlle Truel, Marie-Françoise (2002) Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique Belphégor 1.2:

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Johanna Lindsey

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Blake, Susan L. (2003) " What "Race" is the Sheik?: Rereading a Desert Romance " Doubled Plots: Romance and History 67-85

Topic

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Burge, Amy (2012) Desiring the east: a comparative study of Middle English romance and modern popular sheikh romance PhD, University of York

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war/armed forces

religion/spirituality

fashion/clothing

Burge, Amy (2014) ‘For you are a man and she is a maid’: Performing masculinity in Orientalist medieval and modern popular romance fiction Journal of European Popular Culture 5.2:89-103

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Harlequin Mills & Boon

fashion/clothing

Burge, Amy (2016) Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

fashion/clothing

Harlequin Mills & Boon

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Burge, Amy (2016) " ‘I Will Cut Myself and Smear Blood on the Sheet’: Testing Virginity in Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance " Virgin Envy: The Cultural Insignificance of the Hymen 17-44

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Burge, Amy (2020) Introduction to the special issue on The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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Burge, Amy Robinson, Rachel (2020) Review essay on The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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romance scholarship

Burge, Amy Folie, Sandra (2022) " Girls of Riyadh and Desperate in Dubai: reading and writing romance in the Middle East " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-25

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Ameera Al Hakawati

United Arab Emirates

Cole, Elizabeth (2020) Authors on The Sheik: A conversation with Liz Fielding Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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Crane, Megan (2015) Stacy Holden’s ‘Love in the Desert’: An Author’s Response Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

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Harlequin Mills & Boon

Crawford, Joseph (2021) " Old-World Heroes and New-World Heroines in Post-Millennial Anglophone Romance Media " Romantic Escapes: Post-Millennial Trends in Contemporary Popular Romance Fiction 29-54

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paranormal/fantasy/time-travel romance

Karen Marie Moning

Deal, Clare H. (2015) Throbb[ing] with a consciousness of a knowledge that appalled her’: Embodiment and Female Subjectivity in the Desert Romance Women: A Cultural Review 26.1-2:75-95

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rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Burge, Amy Folie, Sandra (2022) " Girls of Riyadh and Desperate in Dubai: reading and writing romance in the Middle East " The Routledge Companion to Romantic Love DOI:10.4324/9781003022343-25

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Ameera Al Hakawati

United Arab Emirates

Frost, Laura (2006) " The Romance of Cliché: E. M. Hull, D. H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic Fiction " Bad Modernisms 94-118 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv125jq8v.8

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trash/literary and or intellectual quality

romance scholarship

Gargano, Elizabeth (2006) "English Sheiks" and Arab Stereotypes: E. M. Hull, T. E. Lawrence, and the Imperial Masquerade Texas Studies in Literature and Language 48.2:171-186

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Haddad, Emily A. (2007) " Bound to Love: Captivity in Harlequin Sheikh Novels " Empowerment versus Oppression: Twenty-First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels 42-64

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Harlequin Mills & Boon

Alexandra Sellers

war/armed forces

Harders, Robin (2012) " Borderlands of Desire: Captivity, Romance, and the Revolutionary Power of Love " New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays 133-152

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United States of America

Samuel Richardson

Violet Winspear

Elizabeth Vaughn

Heiss, Karin (2015) 14 Weeks of Love and Labour: Teaching Regency and Desert Romance to Undergraduate Students Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

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teaching romance

historical romance

Georgette Heyer

Marguerite Kaye

Holden, Stacy E. (2015) Love in the Desert: Images of Arab-American Reconciliation in Contemporary Sheikh Romance Novels Journal of Popular Romance Studies 5.1:

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Harlequin Mills & Boon

United States of America

fashion/clothing

Lynne Raye Harris

Violet Winspear

Jarmakani, Amira (2010) “The Sheik Who Loved Me”: Romancing the War on Terror Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 35.4:993-1017

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United States of America

war/armed forces

capitalism/business

metaphor/symbolism

Jarmakani, Amira (2011) Desiring the Big Bad Blade: Racing the Sheikh in Desert Romances American Quarterly 63.4:895-928

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fashion/clothing

United States of America

religion/spirituality

Jarmakani, Amira (2015) An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror New York: New York University Press

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war/armed forces

United States of America

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Jarmakani, Amira (2020) On Eligible Princes: The medieval modernity of sheikh romance Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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Jarmakani, Amira (2021) " Desert Is Just Another Word for Freedom " Arab American Women: Representation and Refusal 386–408 DOI:10.2307/j.ctv16x2bqm.21

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Jarmakani, Amira (2021) " Explorations of the "desert passion industry" " The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction 252-266 DOI:10.4324/9781315613468-11

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rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

war/armed forces

Bettinotti, Julia Jeannesson, Gaëlle Truel, Marie-Françoise (2002) Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique Belphégor 1.2:

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Johanna Lindsey

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Kaler, Anne K. (1999) " Conventions of Captivity in Romance Novels " Romantic Conventions 86-99

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religion/spirituality

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Lawrence, E. E. (2020) The trouble with diverse books, part I: on the limits of conceptual analysis for political negotiation in Library & Information Science Journal of Documentation ONLINE FIRST:ONLINE FIRST

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libraries/librarians

LGBT+ characters, readers and/or authors

Lin, Fang-mei (2016) 性別化東方主義 : 女性沙漠羅曼史的重層東方想像 = Gendering orientalism: women's desert romance and the multiplicity of oriental imagination Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 13.1-2:174-200

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Motte, Warren (2012) A Walk on the Sheikh Side Formes Poétiques Contemporaines 9:119-134

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Harlequin Mills & Boon

Sharon Kendrick

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

metaphor/symbolism

Bettinotti, Julia Noizet, Pascale (1989) Le récit en littérature populaire: répétition et invention dans le roman d’amour Protée 17.2:35-40

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Harlequin Mills & Boon

Rabanal, Hayley (2018) Courting convivencia: Hispano-Arab identity and Spanish women’s Orientalism in the Franco regime’s years of “unbearable solitude” (1946–1950) Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 19.3:339-364

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fascism/right-wing authoritarianism

religion/spirituality

María Adela Durango

Ana Marcela García

María del Pilar Carré

Carmen de Icaza

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Burge, Amy Robinson, Rachel (2020) Review essay on The Sheik Journal of Popular Romance Studies 9:

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romance scholarship

Taylor, Jessica (2007) And You Can Be My Sheikh: Gender, Race, and Orientalism in Contemporary Romance Novels Journal of Popular Culture 40.6:1032-1051

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Teo, Hsu-Ming (1999) Shanghaied By Sheiks: Orientalism and hybridity in women's romance writing Olive Pink Society Bulletin 11.1:12–21

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Teo, Hsu-Ming (2003) " The Romance of White Nations: Imperialism, Popular Culture and National Histories " After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation 279-292 DOI:10.1215/9780822384397-018

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national identity

Mary Gaunt, with John Ridgwell Essex

Harlequin Mills & Boon

United States of America

Native American romance

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2007) " Orientalism and Mass Market Romance Novels in the Twentieth Century " Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual 241-262

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United States of America

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2012) Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press

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Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)

United States of America

historical romance

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Teo, Hsu-Ming (2016) " Imperial Affairs: The British Empire and the Romantic Novel, 1890-1939 " New Directions in Popular Fiction: Genre, Distribution, Reproduction 87-110 DOI:10.1057/978-1-137-52346-4_5

Bettinotti, Julia Truel, Marie-Françoise (1997) Lust and Dust: Desert Fabula in Romances and Media Para.doxa: Studies in World Literary Genres 3.1-2:184-194

Topic

Bettinotti, Julia Truel, Marie-Françoise (1997) Lust and Dust: voyages de femmes, roman d’amour ou les enjeux d’une fabula Études littéraires 30.1:59–69

Topic

Bettinotti, Julia Jeannesson, Gaëlle Truel, Marie-Françoise (2002) Séries, suites et redites en culture médiatique Belphégor 1.2:

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Johanna Lindsey

trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Turner, Ellen (2014) " The Sheik Returns: Imitations and Parodies of the Desert Romance " Hype: Bestsellers and Literary Cultures 185-202

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trash/literary and or intellectual quality

Harlequin Mills & Boon

rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse

Turner, Ellen Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia (2022) The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia Lund Journal of English Studies 4:1-24

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historical romance

Marguerite Kaye

genre definitions

Harlequin Mills & Boon

Turner, Ellen Wadsö Lecaros, Cecilia (2022) The desert-governess romance: Regency England meets exotic Arabia Lund Journal of English Studies 4:1-24

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historical romance

Marguerite Kaye

genre definitions

Harlequin Mills & Boon