A Vindication of the Redhead: The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts

By Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030835146
• ISBN13: 9783030835149
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"