Titlebook: Women And The Popular Imagination In The Twenties; Flappers And Nymphs Billie Melman Book 1988 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan

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‘Sex Novels’: A New Kind of Best-seller-seller’. These three synonymous epithets were at the centre of a discourse on the nature and trajectory of mass-market fiction, a discourse which overlapped and often intermingled with that on the contemporary woman. For the new motions on womanhood and sexuality to reach a large, disintegrated rea

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1921: , — a ‘Masculine’ Novelrikes swept the country. On 1 April the long-threatened miners’ strike broke out. A strike order to the railway and transport workers for midnight on 12 April was then postponed, and three days later the Triple Alliance called off the strike. 15 April, ‘Black Friday’, became a symbolic landmark in t

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1924, ller, John Murray published the first of the novels of C. P. Wren, following the adventures of the Geste family. That same month Heinemann brought out a second novel by an unknown Oxford graduate which was to become one of the very greatest successes of the decade. It is difficult to imagine two liv

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1919–28: ‘The Sheik of Araby’ — Freedom in Captivity in the Desert Romancege, or a desert potentate. Then, in the early twenties, the word acquired a new significance. ‘Sheik’ (as it was now spelt in popular writings) still retained its older meanings and associations with the Orient, but in popular Western imagination it came to stand primarily for a new image of masculi

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Conclusionce emerged, slowly and gradually. They can be found recurring in editorial pages, in novels and in recorded speech till the mid thirties. The furore in Rothermere’s dailies had a curious sequel in sporadic outbursts of rhetoric in the spring and summer of 1928.. On 30 May 1928 . gleefully reported o

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Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1988