Evil Women: Representations within Literature, Culture and Film

Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, Volume: 135

Editors: Robyn Muir, Beatrice Frasl, Christie Marie Lauder, and Elizabeth Schreiber-Byers

Evil women, who are they really? What are their motives, and how are they remembered and constructed within our culture? Evil Women: Representations within Literature, Culture and Film seeks to interrogate the nature and construction of evil women in the above fields. Through literature, poetry, history, ballads, film and real-life culture, scholars explore how the evil woman has been constructed and, in some cases, erased; the punishment and treatment of evil women; and the way evil women have been portrayed on and off screen through character, narrative and behind the camera development.