Women And The Popular Imagination In The Twenties : Flappers And Nymphs

Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction: 1918–28, Contexts and Texts....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-13 The Superfluous Woman, the Flapper, the Disfranchised Female and the Rothermere Press....Pages 15-37 Front Matter....Pages 39-39 ‘Sex Novels’: A New Kind of Best-seller....Pages 41-51 1921: If Winter Comes — a ‘Masculine’ Novel....Pages 52-64 1924: The Green Hat....Pages 65-75 1924, Annus Mirabilis: The Constant Nymph....Pages 76-88 1919–28: ‘The Sheik of Araby’ — Freedom in Captivity in the Desert Romance....Pages 89-104 Front Matter....Pages 105-105 Class and Gender: The ‘Girls’ Weeklies’....Pages 107-120 ‘A Lass of Lancashire’: The Mill Girl as Emblem of Working-Class Virtues....Pages 121-133 The Emigrant: Romance and the Empire....Pages 134-144 Conclusion....Pages 145-151 Back Matter....Pages 152-196