Bluebeard : A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition /
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 o...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.


