Literary Angel

AmiJo Comeford, professor of English at Utah Tech University, writes primarily about popular culture and television and also serves as a university ombudsman. She has previously written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and American Civil War poetry. Tamy Burnett, associate director for the University Honors Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, writes about popular culture, especially television, often with a focus on gender and sexuality. She has previously written about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The X-Files, and Veronica Mars.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction: Los Angeles, City of StoryAMIJO COMEFORD and TAMY BURNETT      One : ArchetypesBiting Humor: Harmony, Parody, and the Female VampireLORNA JOWETT      Doyle as “The Passing Figure” and Nella Larsen’s PassingANGEL ANDERSON      Pylean Idol: L.A.’s De(con)struction of a Postmodern BardJENNIFER HAMILTON      Lilah Morgan: Whedon’s Legal Femme FataleSHARON SUTHERLAND and SARAH SWAN      Two : Narrative & IdentityFred’s Captivity Narrative: American Contexts for (Re)Writing Community Identity from Mary Rowlandson to AngelTAMY BURNETT      Feminist Abuse Survivor Narratives in Angel and Sarah Daniels’s Beside HerselfANIKA STAFFORD      Numero Cinco, Border Narratives, and Mexican Cultural Performance in AngelVICTORIA PETTERSEN LANTZ      Three : Theory & Philosophy(Re)Negotiating the Dystopian Dilemma: Huxley, Orwell, and AngelMARY ELLEN IATROPOULOS      Angel vs. the Grand Inquisitor: Joss Whedon Re- imagines DostoevskyKATIA MCCLAIN      Charles Gunn, Wolfram & Hart, and Baudrillard’s Theory of the SimulacrumK. SHANNON HOWARD      “It’s a play on perspective”: A Reading of Whedon’s Illyria through Sartre’s NauseaCYNTHEA MASSON      Four : GenreHelping the Helpless: Medieval Romance in AngelAMIJO COMEFORD      Whedon Meets Sophocles: Prophecy and AngelLAUREL BOWMAN      Detective Fiction/Fictionality from Asmodeus to AngelALISON JAQUET      It (Re-)Started with a Girl: The Creative Interplay Between TV and Comics in Angel: After the FallSTACEY ABBOTT      About the Contributors      Bibliography      Index