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Bluebeard : a reader's guide to the English tradition / Casie E. Hermansson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hermansson, Casie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bluebeard (Legendary character)--In literature.
- Bluebeard.
- Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703. Barbe bleue.
- Perrault, Charles.
- Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703--Adaptations.
- Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703--Translations into English--History and criticism.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Fairy tales--History and criticism.
- Fairy tales.
- Fairy tales in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson, [Miss.] : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. This is a major study of the tale and its many variants in English: from the 18th and 19th century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, to the 20th century in music, literature, art, film, and theatre.
- Contents:
- Preface: three hundred years of "Bluebeard" in English
- Variants and variations
- Principal variants
- Pirates and true Bluebeards
- Bluebeard in the English eighteenth century
- Found in translation : Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard" in English
- A "tree tail'd bashaw" : Bluebeard takes a Turkish turn
- Bluebeard in the English nineteenth century
- Cheap thrills : Bluebeard in chapbooks and juveniles
- "You outrageous man!" : Bluebeard on the comic stage
- Bluebeard in Victorian arts and letters
- Bluebeard in the English twentieth century
- Bluebeard in crisis
- Modernist Bluebeard
- Contemporary Bluebeard
- Epilogue: Bluebeard today.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-48575-X
- 9786612485756
- 1-60473-353-5
- OCLC:
- 472610085
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