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Neo-Victorian Villains : Adaptations and Transformations in Popular Culture.
Neo-Victorian Villains is the first edited collection to examine the afterlives of such Victorian villains as Dracula, Svengali, Dorian Gray and Jekyll and Hyde, exploring their representation in neo-Victorian drama and fiction. In addition, Neo-Victorian Villains examines a number of supposedly vil...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
BRILL,
2017.
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| Colección: | Neo-Victorian Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Theatrical Transformations
- 1. À Perfect Demon': Michael Eaton's Charlie Peace: His Amazing Life & Astounding Legend / Richard J. Hand
- 2. Miss Representation: The Femme Fatale and the Villainy of Performance in Neo-Victorian Hollywood / Christina Parker-Flynn
- 3. Melodramatic Villainy (Just) after the Victorians / Guy Barefoot
- 4. Imperial Heroes and Native Villains / Robert Dean
- 5. Sonorous Psychopaths: Neo-Victorian Ventriloquists on Screen / Gillian Piggott
- pt. 2 Transitional and Liminal Figures
- 6. Kissing the Medium: The Spiritualist-Witch as Countercultural Heroine in The Thirty-Nine Steps (1959) / Marion Gibson
- 7. Jack the Representation: The Ripper in Culture / Mark Jones
- 8. On the Origin of a Supervillain: The Neo-Victorian Reinvention of Mister Sinister / David Bullen
- 9. Framing Our Fearful Symmetry: Substance Dualism, Reincarnation and the Villainy of the Disembodied Soul / Emma V. Miller
- pt. 3 Neo-Victorian Sex and S̀exsation'
- 10. Postfeminist Tart: Neo-Victorian Villainy and Sex Work in Ripper Street / Sarah Artt
- 11. "I raise the devil in you, not any potion. My touch": The Strange Case of Heterosexuality in Neo-Victorian Versions of Jekyll and Hyde / Helen Davies
- 12. Wilde Scoundrel: Villainy and ̀Lad Culture' in the Filmic Afterlives of Dorian Gray / Claire O'Callaghan
- pt. 4 Literary Villains Reimagined
- 13. Svengali: The Evolution of Ethnic Evil through Adaptation / Rob Welch
- 14. From ̀the wicked man' to the ̀bastard boy of seven': The Evolution of John Jasper's Villainy in Adaptations of The Mystery of Edwin Drood / Jonathan Buckmaster
- 15. "I'm always angry": Super-Hydes and the Appropriation of Edward Hyde in Superhero Films / Emma A. Harris
- 16. Revisionist Vampires: Transcoding, Intertextuality, and Neo-Victorianism in the Film Adaptations of Bram Stoker's Dracula / Natalie Russell.