Neo-Victorian Villains : Adaptations and Transformations in Popular Culture.
| Author/creator | Poore, Benjamin, 1971- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Boston : BRILL, 2017. |
| Description | 1 online resource (360 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Neo-Victorian Ser Neo-Victorian Ser. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | 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. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Poore, Benjamin. Neo-Victorian Villains : Adaptations and Transformations in Popular Culture. Boston : BRILL, ©2017 9789004322240 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9789004322257 |
| ISBN | 9004322256 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |