Section I: The (dis)embodiment of evil in medieval and Renaissance moments
1 Contours of an Inherent Frame: The Underpinnings of Evil in Everyman
Bibhash Choudhury
2 If You Only Knew: Mephistopheles, Master Mirror, and the Experience of Evil
Dustin Lovett
3 Recognizable Patterns of Evil in Muslim Characters in Late Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Jeffrey McCambridge
4 Desiring Empire: The Colonial Violence of “Hijab Pornography”
Ibtisam M. Abujad
5 Villains of the High Seas: Apostasy and Piracy in George Peele’s The Battle of Alcazar, the Anonymously Authored Captain Thomas Stukeley, and William Daborne’s A Christian Turned Turk
Jared S. Johnson
Section II: Performing moral deformity in the Shakespearean moment
6 The Psychological Origins of Evil: The Trickster in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi
Hend Hamed
7 A Show of Illusions: Performing Villainous Magic in Shakespeare’s The Tempest & Macbeth
Lisann Anders
8 The Demon’s Amorous Looking Glass: Reflections on the Villain’s Performative Self-Fashioning in Richard III by William Shakespeare
Nizar Zouidi
9 “It is his hand”: Villainy through letters in Shakespeare’s King Lear and Twelfth Night
Sélima Lejri
10 Villainy as a facet of Nietzsche’s Wirkliche Historie prefigured in Shakespeare’s Richard II and concretized in Brecht’s Man Equals Man and The Measures Taken
Mariem Khmiri
Section III: Language, race and the dehumanization of the evil other in (post)colonial moments
11 Tituba’s Stairway: Representations of Tituba in Historical and Fictional Texts
Danielle Legros Georges
12 Colonial ‘Idea’ and ‘Work’: The Evil in Marlow’s Heart of Darkness
Ahmet Süner
13 Caught in a Feudal Hang-Up: My Feudal Lord Mirroring a Villain and the Rebellion of a Pakistani Woman
Humaira Riaz
14 Good Versus Evil in Max’s Lucha Libre Adventures Series (2011-2020) by Xavier Garza
Amy Cummins
Section IV: Obsessed avengers, revenants and vampires in the British and American Romantic moments
15 Melville and Ford: Ahab and the Duke
John Price
16 Naught Beyond: A Phenomenology of Ahab’s “Madness Maddened”
Bill Scalia
17 Seductive Female Villains and Rhetoricians in The Monk and Zofloya; or, The Moor
Hediye Özkan
18 Dressed to Kill: Manipulating Perceived Social Class Through the Con of Clothing in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Fiction
Sabrina Paparella
19 Supernatural Doppelgangers: Manifestations of Villainy in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
Tammie Jenkins
Section V: A world of dark secrets: Espionage, silent wars, and the threat of nuclear annihilation in the post-World War moments
20 Debating ‘the Nuclear Evil’ in U.S. Nuclear Fiction
Inna Sukhenko
21 The Evil Gaze of the State and the Post-Human Interrogator in 1984
Sadok Bouhlila
22 Wicked Speech and Evil Acts: Performativity as Discourse and Murder as Responsibility in Curtain – Poirot’s Last Case (1975) and Speedy Death (1929)
Federica Crescentini
23 Host of Otherness: The Trope of the Urban Space Habitat and the Concept of Evil in Contemporary Science Fiction Media
Mark Filipowich
Section VI: Good criticism of evil art: Studying evil in revisionist academic and cultural moments
24 Busting Binaries: Beyond Evil in Youth Literature, a Consideration of Emezi’s
Pet E. F. Schraeder
25 On the Performance of Villainy and Evil in Joker (2019)
Kelvin Ke Jinde
26 “Making Our Work of Art a Masterpiece”: The Aesthetics of Evil in Alfred Hitchcock’s Ro
