E. M. Hull’s The Sheik is, unquestionably, a bestseller which left its mark on popular romance fiction and “has stubbornly refused to pass into obscurity”…
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The 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 In my interview with Linda Conrad, a U.S.-based desert romance author, she revealed that as a little girl she was most compelled by the classic…
Comments closedIntroduction [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…
Comments closedReaders of popular romance fiction are well aware of the history and legacy of the virgin as a common character in the genre. Titles of…
Comments closedHarry Frankfurt’s, The Reasons of Love is based on compilation of lectures given in the year 2000 at Princeton University (Romanell-Phi Beta Kappa Lectures or…
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