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Women and the popular imagination in the twenties : flappers and nymphs
- Title
- Women and the popular imagination in the twenties : flappers and nymphs / Billie Melman.
- Author
- Melman, Billie
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1988.
- ©1988
Details
- Description
- x, 196 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Popular literature > Great Britain > History and criticism
- Books and reading > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Best sellers > Great Britain > Bibliography
- Women > Books and reading > Great Britain
- Sex in literature
- Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Femmes dans la littérature
- Femmes et littérature > Grande-Bretagne
- Paralittérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire et critique
- Best-sellers > Grande-Bretagne
- Femmes > Grande-Bretagne > Livres et lecture
- Livres et lecture > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle
- Sexualité dans la littérature
- Femmes > Dans la littérature
- Littérature populaire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire et critique
- Livres et lecture > Grande-Bretagne > 20e siècle
- Literatur
- Frau
- Geschichte (1918-1928)
- Best sellers
- Books and reading
- English fiction
- Popular literature
- Women and literature
- Women > Books and reading
- Englisch
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Bibliographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-187) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: 1918-28, Contexts and texts -- "The idiom that the general public posssesses". The superfluous woman, the flapper, the disfranchised female and the Rothermere Press -- 'Furtive excitement': the discourse in best-sellers. 'Sex novels': a new kind of best-seller -- 1921: If Winter Comes - a 'masculine' novel -- 1924: The Green Hat -- 1924: Annus Mirabilis: The Constant Nymph -- 1919-28: 'The Sheik of Araby' - freedom in captivity in the desert romance -- Realistic fantasies: the world of the story papers. Class and gender: The 'girls' weeklies' -- 'A lass of Lancashire': the mill girl as emblem of working-glass virtues -- The emigrant: romance and the empire -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0312007442
- 9780312007447
- LCCN
- 87004652
- OCLC
- 15284911
- Author
- Melman, Billie, author.
- Title
- Women and the popular imagination in the twenties : flappers and nymphs / Billie Melman.
- Publisher
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1988.
- Copyright Date
- ©1988
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-187) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999