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Part I The (Dis)Embodiment of Evil in Medieval and Renaissance Moments |
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1 Contours of an Inherent Frame: The Underpinnings of Evil in Everyman |
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3 | (12) |
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2 If You Only Knew: Mephistopheles, Master Mirror, and the Experience of Evil |
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15 | (22) |
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3 Recognizable Patterns of Evil in Muslim Characters in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature |
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37 | (18) |
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4 Desiring Empire: The Colonial Violence of "Hijab Pornography" |
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55 | (16) |
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5 Villains of the High Seas: Apostasy and Piracy in George Peek's The Battle of Alcazar, The Anonymously Authored Captain Thomas Stukeley, and William Daborne's A Christian Turned Turk |
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71 | (20) |
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Part II Performing Moral Deformity in the Shakespearean Moment |
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6 The Psychological Origins of Evil: The Trickster in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi |
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91 | (14) |
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7 A Show of Illusions: Performing Villainous Magic in Shakespeare's The Tempest & Macbeth |
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105 | (16) |
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8 The Demon's Amorous Looking Glass: Reflections on the Villain's Performative Self-Fashioning in Richard III by William Shakespeare |
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121 | (18) |
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9 "It Is His Hand": Villainy Through Letters in Shakespeare's King Lear and Twelfth Night |
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139 | (22) |
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10 Villainy as a Facet of Nietzsche's Wirkliche Historic Prefigured in Shakespeare's Richard II and Concretized in Brecht's Man Equals Man and the Measures Taken |
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161 | (20) |
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Part III Language, Race and the Dehumanization of the Evil Other in (Post)Colonial Moments |
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11 Tituba's Stairway: Representations of Tituba in Historical and Fictional Texts |
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181 | (22) |
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12 Colonial "Idea" and "Work": The Evil in Marlow's Heart of Darkness |
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203 | (24) |
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13 Caught in a Feudal Hang-Up: My Feudal Lord Mirroring a Villain and the Rebellion of a Pakistani Woman |
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227 | (16) |
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14 Good Versus Evil in Max's Lucha Libre Adventures Series (2011-2020) by Xavier Garza |
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243 | (20) |
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Part IV Obsessed Avengers, Revenants and Vampires in the British and American Romantic Moments |
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15 Melville and Ford: Ahab and the Duke |
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263 | (18) |
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16 Naught Beyond: A Phenomenology of Ahab's "Madness Maddened" |
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281 | (22) |
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17 Seductive Female Villains and Rhetoricians in The Monk and Zofloya; or, The Moor |
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303 | (12) |
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18 Dressed to Kill: Manipulating Perceived Social Class Through the Con of Clothing in Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Fiction |
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315 | (22) |
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19 Supernatural Doppelgangers: Manifestations of Villainy in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights |
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337 | (14) |
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Part V A World of Dark Secrets: Espionage, Silent Wars, and the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation in the Post-World War Moments |
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20 Debating `the Nuclear Evil' in U--S-- Nuclear Fiction |
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351 | (22) |
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21 The Evil Gaze of the State and the PostHuman Interrogator in 1984 |
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373 | (18) |
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22 Wicked Speech and Evil Acts: Performativity as Discourse and Murder as Responsibility in Curtain--Poirot's Last Case (1975) and Speedy Death (1929) |
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391 | (20) |
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23 Host of Otherness: The Trope of the Urban Space Habitat and the Concept of Evil in Contemporary Science Fiction Media |
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411 | (20) |
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Part VI Good Criticism of Evil Art: Studying Evil in Revisionist Academic and Cultural Moments |
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24 Busting Binaries: Beyond Evil in Youth Literature, a Consideration of Emezi's Pet |
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431 | (14) |
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25 On the Performance of Villainy and Evil in Joker (2019) |
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445 | (20) |
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26 "Making Our Work of Art a Masterpiece": The Aesthetics of Evil in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope |
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465 | (16) |
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27 Textual Evil and Performative Precarity in Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho |
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481 | (20) |
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Index |
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