{"product_id":"9783030835170","title":"A Vindication of the Redhead : The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts (1st ed. 2021. 2022. xiii, 294 S. XIII, 294 p. 210 mm)","description":"\u003ci\u003eA Vindication of the Redhead \u003c\/i\u003e 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 provide a history of attitudes held by hegemonic populations toward red-haired individuals, groups, and genders from antiquity to the present. Ayres and Maier explore such diverse topics as Judeo-Christian narratives of red hair, redheads in Pre-Raphaelite paintings, red hair and gender identity, famous literary redheads such as \u003ci\u003eAnne of Green Gables\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePippi Longstocking\u003c\/i\u003e, contemporary and Neo-Victorian representations of redheads from the Black Widow to \u003ci\u003eThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo\u003c\/i\u003e, and more. This book illuminates the symbolic significance and related ideologies of red hair constructed in mythic, religious, literary, and visual cultural discourse.   1. Introduction: \"Hair is the Woman's Glory\"-Unless It's Red\u003ci\u003e.- \u003c\/i\u003e2. 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. \u003ci\u003eLes Roux Fatales\u003c\/i\u003e: The Plaits of Pre-Raphaelite Redheads.- 5. The Agency of Red Hair on the Mage Gender Equivocal in \u003ci\u003eMr. Rochester, The Little Stranger, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Danish Girl, \u003c\/i\u003eand Elsewhere.- 6. \"Here we are again!\" Red-haired Golems Galore Including Those in \u003ci\u003eDan Leno and the Limehouse Golem\u003c\/i\u003e.- 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrenda Ayres\u003c\/b\u003e, now semiretired,\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eteaches online English courses for Liberty University and Southern New Hampshire University, USA. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah E. Maier \u003c\/b\u003eis\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eProfessor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick Saint John, Canada. \u003c\/p\u003eAyres and Maier have coedited several collections of essays. The most recent are \u003ci\u003eThe Theological Dickens \u003c\/i\u003e(2021), \u003ci\u003eNeo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media\u003c\/i\u003e (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), \u003ci\u003eNeo-Gothic Narratives: Illusory Allusions from the Past \u003c\/i\u003e(2020), \u003ci\u003eAnimals and Their Children in Victorian Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(2019) and \u003ci\u003eReinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-first Century \u003c\/i\u003e(2019).\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SPRINGER, BERLIN; SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING;","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49217826259171,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":129.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9783030835170","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}