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"A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair."
Times Literary Supplement 19th and early 20th-century hair appears
to be everywhere when you start to look, from the abundant locks of
the pre-Raphaelites to the myriad objects on show at the Great
Exhibitions. The latter, hosted at venues such as the Crystal
Palace, hinted at the level of global trade in hair economies, from
hair harvest, hairpieces, and hairwork to commodities for styling
and adornment. It was a period when hair became fetishized in all
sorts of ways, from fashioning hair to moralising constriction,
from suggestions of sexuality in abundant free-flowing locks, to
intricate hair-incorporating jewellery which offered spiritual
connections to the dead. In a period of increasing globalization
and associated anxieties, hair came to express identity not just
for the individual but for different cultures. Perhaps inevitably,
hair itself became a contested site of signification whether as the
strands of the diaspora, the cut locks of the underclass, or the
coiffures of the court. A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of
Empire presents an overview of the tangled tresses of hair in this
period, with essays covering: Religion and Ritualized Belief; Self
and Society; Fashion and Adornment; Production and Practice; Health
and Hygiene; Gender and Sexuality; Race and Ethnicity; Class and
Social Status and Cultural Representations.
19th and early 20th-century hair appears to be everywhere when you
start to look, from the abundant locks of the pre-Raphaelites to
the myriad objects on show at the Great Exhibitions. The latter,
hosted at venues such as the Crystal Palace, hinted at the level of
global trade in hair economies, from hair harvest, hairpieces, and
hairwork to commodities for styling and adornment. It was a period
when hair became fetishized in all sorts of ways, from fashioning
hair to moralising constriction, from suggestions of sexuality in
abundant free-flowing locks, to intricate hair-incorporating
jewellery which offered spiritual connections to the dead. In a
period of increasing globalization and associated anxieties, hair
came to express identity not just for the individual but for
different cultures. Perhaps inevitably, hair itself became a
contested site of signification whether as the strands of the
diaspora, the cut locks of the underclass, or the coiffures of the
court. A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire presents an
overview of the tangled tresses of hair in this period, with essays
covering: Religion and Ritualized Belief; Self and Society; Fashion
and Adornment; Production and Practice; Health and Hygiene; Gender
and Sexuality; Race and Ethnicity; Class and Social Status and
Cultural Representations.
This book deals with legends and images of the apocalypse and
post-apocalypse in film and graphic arts, literature and lore from
early to modern times and from peoples and cultures around the
world. It reflects an increasingly popular leitmotif in literature
and visual arts of the 21st century: humanity's fear of extinction
and its quest for survival -- in revenant, supernatural, or living
human form. It is the logical continuation of a series of collected
essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of
the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular
culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal
Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip
and the Atavistic. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013)
focused on the vampire legend. The third, The Supernatural
Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic
(2016), focused on a range of supernatural beings in literature,
film, and other forms of popular culture.
This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected
essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of
the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular
culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal
Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip
and the Atavistic. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013)
focused on the vampire legend. The essays in this collection expand
that scope to include a multicultural and multigeneric discussion
of a pantheon of supernatural creatures who interact and cross
species-specific boundaries with ease. Angels and demons are
discussed from the perspective of supernatural allegory, angelic
ethics and supernatural heredity and genetics. Fairies, sorcerers,
witches and werewolves are viewed from the perspectives of popular
nightmare tales, depictions of race and ethnicity, popular public
discourse and cinematic imagery. Discussions of the "undead and
still dead" include images of death messengers and draugar, zombies
and vampires in literature, popular media and Japanese anime.
This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected
essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of
the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular
culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal
Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip
and the Atavistic. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013)
focused on the vampire legend. The essays in this collection expand
that scope to include a multicultural and multigeneric discussion
of a pantheon of supernatural creatures who interact and cross
species-specific boundaries with ease. Angels and demons are
discussed from the perspective of supernatural allegory, angelic
ethics and supernatural heredity and genetics. Fairies, sorcerers,
witches and werewolves are viewed from the perspectives of popular
nightmare tales, depictions of race and ethnicity, popular public
discourse and cinematic imagery. Discussions of the "undead and
still dead" include images of death messengers and draugar, zombies
and vampires in literature, popular media and Japanese anime.
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