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A Vindication of the Redhead

The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

 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  and , contemporary and Neo-Victorian representations of redheads from the Black Widow 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

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-030-83517-0 / 978-3030835170 / 9783030835170

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsdatum: 16.12.2022

Seiten: 294

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier

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