Re-Visiting Female Evil - Power, Purity and Desire

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.

About the author

Melissa Dearey is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Hull. She teaches, researches and has published on a wide variety of topics on evil. Her other interests include dance, environmental and corporate/state crime. Her most recent volume is Making Sense of Evil: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Roger Davis (Ph.D., University of Calgary) teaches English in the School of Arts & Sciences at Red Deer College, Canada. His teaching and research interests include poetry and poetics, cannibals and zombies, and academic integrity and essay writing.

Susana Nicolás is a lecturer and tutor for postgraduate programmes in the English Department at the University of Almeria (Spain). She holds a PhD in English literature and in her current role, she teaches undergraduate and masters courses in British theatre and pedagogy.

Product details

• Assisted by: Roger Davis (Editor), Melissa Dearey (Editor), Susana Nicolás (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2017
• EAN: 9789004350397
• ISBN: 978-90-04-35039-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 233 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 312 g
• Series: At the Interface / Probing the
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories