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Neo-Victorian Villains
Adaptations and Transformations in Popular Culture
Series: - Neo-Victorian Series, Volume: 7
- Neo-Victorian Series Online, Volume: 7
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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 villainous types, from the spirit medium and the femme fatale to the imperial ânativeâ and the ventriloquist, and traces their development from Victorian times today. Chapters analyse recent theatre, films and television â from Ripper Street to Marvel superhero movies â as well as classic Hollywood depictions of Victorian villains. In a wide-ranging opening chapter, Benjamin Poore assesses the legacy of nineteenth-century ideas of villains and villainy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Contributors are: Sarah Artt, Guy Barefoot, Jonathan Buckmaster, David Bullen, Helen Davies, Robert Dean, Marion Gibson, Richard Hand, Emma James, Mark Jones, Emma V. Miller, Claire OâCallaghan, Christina Parker-Flynn, Frances Pheasant-Kelly, Natalie Russell, Gillian Piggott, Benjamin Poore and Rob Welch.
Contributors are: Sarah Artt, Guy Barefoot, Jonathan Buckmaster, David Bullen, Helen Davies, Robert Dean, Marion Gibson, Richard Hand, Emma James, Mark Jones, Emma V. Miller, Claire OâCallaghan, Christina Parker-Flynn, Frances Pheasant-Kelly, Natalie Russell, Gillian Piggott, Benjamin Poore and Rob Welch.
Benjamin Poore, Ph.D. (2009), Royal Holloway, University of London, is Lecturer in Theatre at the University of York, UK, and has published widely on neo-Victorianism and adaptation studies. His first monograph was Heritage, Nostalgia and Modern British Theatre (Palgrave, 2012).
List of Figures
The Villain-Effect: Distance and Ubiquity in Neo-Victorian Popular CultureâBenjamin Poore
2 Miss Representation: The Femme Fatale and the Villainy of Performance in Neo-Victorian HollywoodâChristina Parker-Flynn
3 Melodramatic Villainy (Just) after the VictoriansâGuy Barefoot
4 Imperial Heroes and Native VillainsâRobert Dean
5 Sonorous Psychopaths: Neo-Victorian Ventriloquists on ScreenâGillian Piggott
7 Jack the Representation: The Ripper in CultureâMark Jones
8 On the Origin of a Supervillain: The Neo-Victorian Reinvention of Mister SinisterâDavid Bullen
9 Framing Our Fearful Symmetry: Substance Dualism, Reincarnation and the Villainy of the Disembodied SoulâEmma V. Miller
11 "I raise the devil in you, not any potion. My touch": The Strange Case of Heterosexuality in Neo-Victorian Versions of Jekyll and HydeâHelen Davies
12 A Wilde Scoundrel: Villainy and 'Lad Culture' in the Filmic Afterlives of Dorian GrayâClaire OâCallaghan
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 DroodâJonathan Buckmaster
15 "Iâm always angry": Super-Hydes and the Appropriation of Edward Hyde in Superhero FilmsâEmma A. Harris
16 Revisionist Vampires: Transcoding, Intertextuality, and Neo-Victorianism in the Film Adaptations of Bram Stoker's DraculaâFrances Pheasant-Kelly and Natalie Russell
Index
The Villain-Effect: Distance and Ubiquity in Neo-Victorian Popular CultureâBenjamin Poore
Part 1: Theatrical Transformations
1 'A Perfect Demonâ: Michael Eaton's Charlie Peace: His Amazing Life & Astounding LegendâRichard J. Hand2 Miss Representation: The Femme Fatale and the Villainy of Performance in Neo-Victorian HollywoodâChristina Parker-Flynn
3 Melodramatic Villainy (Just) after the VictoriansâGuy Barefoot
4 Imperial Heroes and Native VillainsâRobert Dean
5 Sonorous Psychopaths: Neo-Victorian Ventriloquists on ScreenâGillian Piggott
Part 2: Transitional and Liminal Figures
6 Kissing the Medium: The Spiritualist-Witch as Countercultural Heroine in the Thirty-Nine Steps (1959)âMarion Gibson7 Jack the Representation: The Ripper in CultureâMark Jones
8 On the Origin of a Supervillain: The Neo-Victorian Reinvention of Mister SinisterâDavid Bullen
9 Framing Our Fearful Symmetry: Substance Dualism, Reincarnation and the Villainy of the Disembodied SoulâEmma V. Miller
Part 3: Neo-Victorian Sex and 'Sexsation'
10 The Postfeminist Tart: Neo-Victorian Villainy and Sex Work in Ripper StreetâSarah Artt11 "I raise the devil in you, not any potion. My touch": The Strange Case of Heterosexuality in Neo-Victorian Versions of Jekyll and HydeâHelen Davies
12 A Wilde Scoundrel: Villainy and 'Lad Culture' in the Filmic Afterlives of Dorian GrayâClaire OâCallaghan
Part 4: Literary Villains Reimagined
13 Svengali: The Evolution of Ethnic Evil through AdaptationâRob Welch14 From 'the wicked man' to the 'bastard boy of seven': The Evolution of John Jasper's Villainy in Adaptations of The Mystery of Edwin DroodâJonathan Buckmaster
15 "Iâm always angry": Super-Hydes and the Appropriation of Edward Hyde in Superhero FilmsâEmma A. Harris
16 Revisionist Vampires: Transcoding, Intertextuality, and Neo-Victorianism in the Film Adaptations of Bram Stoker's DraculaâFrances Pheasant-Kelly and Natalie Russell
Index
Scholars, students and general readers interested in neo-Victorianism, adaptation, costume drama, and melodrama. Suitable for reading lists in English Literature, Film and Television, Adaptation, and Drama and Theatre degree programmes.