A Vindication of the Redhead : The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts /

A Vindication of the Redhead investigates red hair in literature, art, television, and film throughout Eastern and Western cultures. This study examines red hair as a signifier, perpetuated through stereotypes, myths, legends, and literary and visual representations. Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier...

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Main Authors:	Ayres, Brenda (Author), Maier, Sarah E. (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Subjects:	Literature, Modern-19th century. Literature, Modern-20th century. Literature, Modern-21st century. Literature. Popular Culture. Goth culture (Subculture) . Gothic fiction (Literary genre). Civilization-History. Nineteenth-Century Literature. Contemporary Literature. Literature, general. Popular Culture . Gothic Studies. Cultural History. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: "Hair is the Woman's Glory"-Unless It's Red
2. The Devil Has Red Hair: And So Do Other Dissemblers in Judeo-Christian Narratives
3. "Real Are the Dreams": Red Hairy Incubi and Unheavenly Succubi
4. Les Roux Fatales: The Plaits of Pre-Raphaelite Redheads
5. The Agency of Red Hair on the Mage Gender Equivocal in Mr. Rochester, The Little Stranger, The Danish Girl, and Elsewhere
6. "Here we are again!" Red-haired Golems Galore Including Those in Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
7. Tangled Webs of Red Hair from the Grimm Brothers to Kate Morton
8. The Other Redheads Throughout Asia and Africa
9. Tough Little Red-Headed Orphans: Anne (of Green Gables), Little Orphan Annie, Madeline, and Pippi
10. Rebellious Royals: From Disney's Ariel to Pixar's Merida
11. Neo-Victorian Freakery: Flaming-Haired Women, Art, Dolls, and Detection
12. STEAM(y) and Marvel(ous) Women: Agent Scully, Lisbeth Salander, Beth Harmon and the Black Widow
13. Epilogue: The Splitting of Red Hairs.