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Author Hermansson, Casie, author

Title Bluebeard : a reader's guide to the English tradition / Casie E. Hermansson
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-275) and index
Notes English
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Subject Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703. Barbe bleue.
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703 -- Adaptations
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703 -- Translations into English -- History and criticism
Bluebeard (Legendary character) -- In literature
SUBJECT Bluebeard (Legendary character) fast
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703 fast
Barbe bleue (Perrault, Charles) fast
Subject English literature -- History and criticism.
American literature -- History and criticism.
Fairy tales -- History and criticism
Fairy tales in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
American literature
English literature
Fairy tales
Fairy tales in literature
Literature
Genre/Form Adaptations
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781604733532
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9786612485756
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