Overview
- Contributes to the fields of cultural studies, Victorian studies, and Neo-Victorian studies
- Considers a range of topics especially myths and stereotypes present in representations of redheads
- Investigates key tropes and themes related to red hair that are revisited in historical periods and media
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About the authors
Brenda 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).Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Vindication of the Redhead
Book Subtitle: The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts
Authors: Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83515-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83514-9Published: 15 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83517-0Published: 16 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83515-6Published: 14 December 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 294
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, Literature, general, Popular Culture , Gothic Studies, Cultural History