Re-visiting Female Evil ：Power, Purity and Desire ( At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries )

Publication subTitle ：Power, Purity and Desire

Publication series ：At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

Author： Dearey Melissa;Nicolás Susana;Davis Roger

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9789004350816

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004350397

Subject： C913.68 Womens Issues

Keyword：社会科学理论与方法论

Language： ENG

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Mischievous, beguiling, seductive, lascivious, unruly, carping, vengeful and manipulative – from the Disney princess to the murderous Medea, the articles in Re-visiting Female Evil grapple with our understanding of what it is to be and do evil femininities.

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Re-visiting Female Evil: Power, Purity and Desire

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I Re-Creating the Cult of the Female

Maud Allan, the Cult of the Clitoris and the Future of Britain

Pola Negri’s Star Persona in America of the 1920s

Seduction and Sex: The Changing Allure of the Femme Fatale in Fact and Fiction

Part II Re-Visiting the Classic(al) Female Evil in Mythology and on the Stage

Monstrous Beauty, Monstrous Strength: The Case of the Mermaid

Cutting Narrative Ties: Sacrifice and Transformation in Medea

‘She Sleeps inside like a Lion and a Lamb and a Child’: Revisiting Shakespeare’s Female Evil through Edward Bond’s Lear

Part III Re-Interpreting Female Evil in Literature and on the Screen

The Season of the Witch: Gender Trouble in American Horror Story-Coven

Memory, Agency, Subjectivity: Lisbeth Salander and the Flashes Back to the Past in the Millennium Films

Laura Palmer: Intertextual Temptress

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