Women and the Popular Imagination in the Twenties: Flappers and Nymphs

Author
Melman, Billie
Publisher
Macmillan
Location
Houndmills, Basingstoke
Publication year
1988
Link
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QwewCwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&…
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19099-7
https://archive.org/details/womenpopularimag0000melm
Comment

See in particular
Chapter 2 - 'Sex Novels': A New Kind of Best-seller
Chapter 6 - 1919-28: 'The Sheik of Araby' - Freedom in Captivity in the Desert Romance
Chapter 8 - 'A Lass of Lancashire': The Mill Girl as Emblem of Working-Class Virtues
Chapter 9 - The Emigrant: Romance and the Empire

Topic
Older and/or precursor texts (may not be "romance" as now defined)
Ethel M. Dell
E. M. Hull
sex/sexuality
gender
race/ethnicity
settings
metaphor/symbolism
animals
rape and/or intimate partner violence/abuse
pornography
romances in magazines and newspapers
social/economic class
work
community

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