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1 online resource (xxii, 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
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polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-275) 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 is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales of all time. 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. Astonishingly, this fairy tale was a nursery room staple, one of the tales translated into English from Charles Perrault's French Mother Goose Tales. Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition is the first major study of the tale and its many variants (some, like "Mr. F. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| 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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Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703 -- Translations into English -- History and criticism.
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Bluebeard (Legendary character) -- In literature.
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Bluebeard (Legendary character) |
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Barbe bleue (Perrault, Charles) |
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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 in literature.
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Fairy tales. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. |
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Fairy tales in literature. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology. |
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Literature. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Literary criticism.
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Adaptations.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hermansson, Casie. Bluebeard. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2009 9781604732306 (DLC) 2008049949 (OCoLC)276816842 |
| ISBN |
9781604733532 (electronic book) |
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1604733535 (electronic book) |
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128248575X |
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9781282485754 |
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9786612485756 |
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6612485752 |
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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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