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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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Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston :
Brill,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Neo-Victorian series ;
7. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Villain-Effect: Distance and Ubiquity in Neo-Victorian Popular Culture / Benjamin Poore
- Theatrical Transformations
- 'A Perfect Demon': Michael Eaton's Charlie Peace: His Amazing Life and Astounding Legend / Richard J. Hand
- Miss Representation: The Femme Fatale and the Villainy of Performance in Neo-Victorian Hollywood / Christina Parker-Flynn
- Melodramatic Villainy (Just) after the Victorians / Guy Barefoot
- Imperial Heroes and Native Villains / Robert Dean
- Sonorous Psychopaths: Neo-Victorian Ventriloquists on Screen / Gillian Piggott
- Transitional and Liminal Figures
- Kissing the Medium: The Spiritualist-Witch as Countercultural Heroine in The Thirty-Nine Steps (1959) / Marion Gibson
- Jack the Representation: The Ripper in Culture / Mark Jones
- On the Origin of a Supervillain: The Neo-Victorian Reinvention of Mister Sinister / David Bullen
- Framing Our Fearful Symmetry: Substance Dualism, Reincarnation and the Villainy of the Disembodied Soul / Emma V. Miller
- Neo-Victorian Sex and 'Sexsation'
- The Postfeminist Tart: Neo-Victorian Villainy and Sex Work in Ripper Street / Sarah Artt
- "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
- A Wilde Scoundrel: Villainy and 'Lad Culture' in the Filmic Afterlives of Dorian Gray / Claire O'Callaghan
- Literary Villains Reimagined
- Svengali: The Evolution of Ethnic Evil through Adaptation / Rob Welch
- 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
- "I'm always angry": Super-Hydes and the Appropriation of Edward Hyde in Superhero Films / Emma A. Harris
- Revisionist Vampires: Transcoding, Intertextuality, and Neo-Victorianism in the Film Adaptations of Bram Stoker's Dracula / Frances Pheasant-Kelly and Natalie Russell.