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Women And The Popular Imagination In The Twenties

Flappers And Nymphs

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. Billie Melman

    1. Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: 1918–28, Contexts and Texts

    1. Introduction: 1918–28, Contexts and Texts

      • Billie Melman
      Pages 1-12

  3. ‘The Idiom that the General Public Possesses’

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. The Superfluous Woman, the Flapper, the Disfranchised Female and the Rothermere Press

      • Billie Melman
      Pages 15-37

  4. ‘Furtive Excitement’: The Discourse in Best-sellers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. ‘Sex Novels’: A New Kind of Best-seller

      • Billie Melman
      Pages 41-51

    3. 1921: If Winter Comes — a ‘Masculine’ Novel

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      Pages 52-64

    4. 1924: The Green Hat

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      Pages 65-75

    5. 1924, Annus Mirabilis: The Constant Nymph

      • Billie Melman
      Pages 76-88

    6. 1919–28: ‘The Sheik of Araby’ — Freedom in Captivity in the Desert Romance

      • Billie Melman
      Pages 89-104

  5. Realistic Fantasies: The World of the Story Papers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. Class and Gender: The ‘Girls’ Weeklies’

      • Billie Melman
      Pages 107-120

    3. ‘A Lass of Lancashire’: The Mill Girl as Emblem of Working-Class Virtues

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      Pages 121-133

    4. The Emigrant: Romance and the Empire

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      Pages 134-144

    5. Conclusion

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      Pages 145-151

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 152-196
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  • Tel-Aviv University, Israel

    Billie Melman

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