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* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1. Loving the Orient: The Romantic East and European Literature * Chapter 2. The Rise of the Desert Romance Novel * Chapter 3. E. M. Hull's The Sheik * Chapter 4. The Spectacular East: Romantic Orientalism in America * Chapter 5. The Orientalist Historical Romance Novel * Chapter 6. The Contemporary Sheik Romance Novel: The Historical Background * Chapter 7. Harems, Houris, Heroines, and Heroes * Chapter 8. From Tourism to Terrorism * Chapter 9. Reader Responses to the Modern Orientalist Romance Novel * Conclusion * Notes * Bibliography * Index