A Vindication of the Redhead

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<i>A Vindication of the Redhead</i> investigates red hair in literature, art, television, and film throughout Eastern and Western cultures. This study examines red hair as a signifier, perpetuated through stereotypes, myths, legends, and literary and visual representations. Brenda Ayres and Sarah E. Maier provide a history of attitudes held by hegemonic populations toward red-haired individuals, groups, and genders from antiquity to the present. Ayres and Maier explore such diverse topics as Judeo-Christian narratives of red hair, redheads in Pre-Raphaelite paintings, red hair and gender identity, famous literary redheads such as <i>Anne of Green Gables</i> and <i>Pippi Longstocking</i>, contemporary and Neo-Victorian representations of redheads from the Black Widow to <i>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo</i>, and more. This book illuminates the symbolic significance and related ideologies of red hair constructed in mythic, religious, literary, and visual cultural discourse.  

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<p><b>Brenda Ayres</b>, now semiretired,<b> </b>teaches online English courses for Liberty University and Southern New Hampshire University, USA. </p> <p><b>Sarah E. Maier </b>is<b> </b>Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of New Brunswick Saint John, Canada. </p> Ayres and Maier have coedited several collections of essays. The most recent are <i>The Theological Dickens </i>(2021), <i>Neo-Victorian Madness: Rediagnosing Nineteenth-Century Mental Illness in Literature and Other Media</i> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), <i>Neo-Gothic Narratives: Illusory Allusions from the Past </i>(2020), <i>Animals and Their Children in Victorian Culture </i>(2019) and <i>Reinventing Marie Corelli for the Twenty-first Century </i>(2019).<p></p>

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