This book could not have been written without financial support from Macquarie University via the Macquarie University Research Fellowship and Macquarie University New Staff Grant. So thank you both very much, Ned and Angela! Angela, in particular, has been a good friend and a generous mentor throughout my academic career. I amassed so much material that Angela Woollacott suggested I write a book on the subject, and this is the result. The idea for this book came out of that conference. N 2006, Ned Curthoys asked me to revisit my earlier work on sheik novels and Orientalism for a conference at the Australian National University that he and Debjani Ganguli were organizing on the legacy of Edward Said. Reader Responses to the Modern Orientalist Romance Novel 279Ĭonclusion 295 Notes 307 Bibliography 313 Index 339 From Tourism to Terrorism 241 cHapTer nine. Harems, Heroines, and Heroes 217 cHapTer eigHT. The Contemporary Sheik Romance Novel: The Historical Background 193 cHapTer seven. The Orientalist Historical Romance Novel 144 cHapTer six. The Spectacular East: Romantic Orientalism in America 109 cHapTer five. The Rise of the Desert Romance Novel 68 cHapTer THree. Loving the Orient: The Romantic East and European Literature 27 cHapTer Two. Includes bibliographical references and index. library of congress caTaloging- in- publicaTion daTa Teo, Hsu-Ming, 1970– Desert passions : Orientalism and romance novels / by Hsu-Ming Teo. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 ♾ The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (r1997) (Permanence of Paper). Copyright © 2012 by the University of Texas Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2012 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O.