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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Brenda Ayres , Sarah E. MaierPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: 1st ed. 2021 Weight: 0.405kg ISBN: 9783030835170ISBN 10: 3030835170 Pages: 294 Publication Date: 16 December 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. 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.ReviewsAuthor InformationBrenda Ayres, now semiretired, teaches online English courses for Liberty University and Southern New Hampshire University, USA. Sarah E. Maier is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick Saint John, Canada. Ayres and Maier have coedited several collections of essays. The most recent are The Theological Dickens (2021), Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Neo-Gothic Narratives: Illusory Allusions from the Past (2020), Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture (2019) and Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-first Century (2019). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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