Patricia Raub

Standard Name: Raub, Patricia

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Literary responses E. M. Hull
Patricia Raub views The Sheik as the precursor of the mass-marketed romances initiated by Harlequin Romance novels in 1957.
Raub, Patricia. “Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Sheik</span&gt”;. Women’s Studies, Vol.
21
, pp. 119-28.
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The plot line which pits a young, beautiful, inexperienced, and aristocratic heroine against a tall...
Literary responses E. M. Hull
EMH 's first novel, her desert romance The Sheik, became something of a cultural phenomenon.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
It established the formula for the desert romance, which grew in popularity between the two World Wars in a...
Textual Features E. M. Hull
After beginning her trip smoothly, Diana is surprised by a Sheik, Ahmed Ben Hassan, who kidnaps and rapes her. But EMH provides a troubling confluence of passion and male aggression, carefully blurring the line between...

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Raub, Patricia. “Issues of Passion and Power in E. M. Hull’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>The Sheik</span&gt”;. Women’s Studies, Vol.
21
, pp. 119-28.