A Vindication of the Redhead
The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts
Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)
investigates red hair throughout literature, art, television, and film in both 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 individuals, groups, and genders who had red hair 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 and , contemporary and Neo-Victorian representations of redheads from to , and more. This book illuminates the symbolic significance and related ideologies of red hair constructed in mythic, religious, literary, and visual cultural discourse. weiterlesen
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