A vindication of the redhead : the typology of red hair throughout the literary and visual arts /: the typology of red hair throughout the literary and visual arts. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier.
• Authors: Ayres, Brenda, 1953-; Maier, Sarah E (Sarah Elizabeth), 1968-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.93353; Literature -- History and criticism; Redheads in literature; Redheads in art; Redheads in popular culture; Redheads in motion pictures
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030835156
• Related ISBNs: 9783030835149
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