Fear and Clothing: Dress in English Detective Fiction between the First and Second World Wars

1. Introduction. Cultural History And Dress In Fiction ; Reading Dress In Fiction ; Who Wrote Detective Fiction? ; Who Read Detective Fiction? ; Conclusion -- 2. Getting It Wrong. Class ; Character ; Age ; Conclusion -- 3. Searching For Mr Right: Interwar Masculinities. Performing Masculinity ; Pre-war Masculinity ; The Antihero ; Beyond The Pale: Subordinate Masculinities ; Towards A Second War: New Man ; Conclusion -- 4. Tweed, Weaving A Nation, Weaving A Man. Tweed And Detective Fiction ; History Of Tweed ; Tweed After The Great War ; Tweed And National Identity ; Women In Tweed ; Conclusion -- 5. Performing Womanhood. Pre-war Dress And Behaviour, The Origins Of The Female Gentleman ; The Flapper The 1930s ; Frilly And Silly ; The Spinster ; Towards A Second War ; Conclusion -- 6. Addressing Race. Blacks And Asians ; The Dago ; Gypsies ; Jews ; Slavs ; Colonials ; Americans -- 7. Conclusion -- Bibliography Of Primary Sources -- Bibliography Of Secondary Sources -- Appendix: Database Of Texts Consulted. Jane Custance Baker. Includes Bibliographical References. Electronic Reproduction. London Available Via World Wide Web.