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A Vindication of the RedheadLes Roux Fatales: The Plaits of Pre-Raphaelite Redheads

A Vindication of the Redhead: Les Roux Fatales: The Plaits of Pre-Raphaelite Redheads [This chapter identifies and analyzes the redheads that appear in Pre-Raphaelite paintings with their having been influenced by the German and British Romantics. In turn, the redhead types have influenced red-haired femme fatales in numerous novels such as Mary Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862), Wilkie Collins’ Armadale (1864–1866), John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969), Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938), and The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë (1961) and in turn, Justine Picardie’s biofiction, Daphne (2008). In these, red-haired women are portrayed as being other-worldly but not always angelic. Like Keats’ Lamia, they exert spiritual power over men that leads to their unmanning and often to their deaths as well.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Vindication of the RedheadLes Roux Fatales: The Plaits of Pre-Raphaelite Redheads

Ayres, Brenda
Springer Journals — Jan 1, 2022
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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978-3-030-83514-9
Pages
71 –103
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-83515-6_4
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[This chapter identifies and analyzes the redheads that appear in Pre-Raphaelite paintings with their having been influenced by the German and British Romantics. In turn, the redhead types have influenced red-haired femme fatales in numerous novels such as Mary Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret (1862), Wilkie Collins’ Armadale (1864–1866), John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969), Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938), and The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë (1961) and in turn, Justine Picardie’s biofiction, Daphne (2008). In these, red-haired women are portrayed as being other-worldly but not always angelic. Like Keats’ Lamia, they exert spiritual power over men that leads to their unmanning and often to their deaths as well.]

Published: Jan 1, 2022

Keywords: Lady’s Audley’s Secret; Armadale; Vampires; Daphne; Branwell Brontë; Boudica

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