Neo-Victorian Things : Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film / / edited by Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres, Danielle Mariann Dove
| Neo-Victorian Things : Re-imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film / / edited by Sarah E. Maier, Brenda Ayres, Danielle Mariann Dove |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2022.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 pages) |
| Disciplina |
306.1
809.38766 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 19th century
Literature, Modern - 20th century Literature, Modern - 21st century Motion pictures Nineteenth-Century Literature Contemporary Literature Audio-Visual Culture |
| ISBN |
9783031062018
3031062019 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction: Stuff and Things: Introducing Neo-Victorian Materialities -- 2. Objects and Memorabilia in Deborah Lutz's The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects -- 3. "Around the Mizzenpole": Charles Johnson's Middle Passage and African Americanizing the Neo-Victorian-at-sea -- 4. Touching, Writing, Collecting: Opium Paraphernalia and Neo-Victorian Material Culture -- 5. An Instrumental Thing: Pianos Extending and Becoming Postcolonial Bodies in Jane Campion's The Piano and Daniel Mason's The Piano Tuner -- 6. "Wilful Phantoms": Haunted Dress, Memory, and Agentic Materiality in Colm Tóibín's The Master -- 7. The Thing About Haunted Houses: In The Turn of the Screw, The Innocents and The Haunting of Hill House -- 8. There's Something in the Tea: Murder and Materiality in Dark Angel -- 9. Criminal Things: Sherlock Holmes' Details of Detection and Their Neo-Victorian Revisions -- 10. The Sleight of Hand: Appearance and Disappearance of Things in Neo-Victorian Magic. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910584486703321 |
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A Vindication of the Redhead : The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts / / by Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier
| A Vindication of the Redhead : The Typology of Red Hair Throughout the Literary and Visual Arts / / by Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier |
| Autore | Ayres Brenda |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina |
809
809.93353 |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Modern - 19th century
Literature, Modern - 20th century Literature, Modern - 21st century Literature - History and criticism Clothing and dress - Social aspects Human body in popular culture Goth culture (Subculture) Civilization - History Nineteenth-Century Literature Contemporary Literature Literary Criticism Fashion and the Body Gothic Studies Cultural History |
| ISBN |
9783030835156
3030835154 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910513583103321 |
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