| Description |
xxii, 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
"Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition is the first major study of the tale and its many variants (some, like "Mr. Fox," native to England and America) in English: from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, through the twentieth century in music, literature, art, film, and theater"--Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703. Barbe bleue.
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Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703 -- Adaptations.
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Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703. |
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Adaptations.
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| Subject |
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703 -- Translations into English -- History and criticism.
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Barbe bleue (Perrault, Charles) |
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Bluebeard (Legendary character) -- In literature.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Fairy tales -- History and criticism.
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Fairy tales. |
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Fairy tales in literature.
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Fairy tales in literature. |
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Bluebeard (Legendary character) in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Adaptations.
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| ISBN |
9781604732306 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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160473230X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781604732313 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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1604732318 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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