Bluebeard [electronic resource] : a reader's guide to the English tradition / Casie E. Hermansson.
Material type: TextPublication details: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.Description: xxii, 289 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.)Subject(s):- 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
- English literature -- History and criticism
- American literature -- History and criticism
- Fairy tales -- History and criticism
- Fairy tales in literature
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- PR153.B58 H47 2009eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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