03297nam 2200649 a 450 991095513690332120200520144314.01-282-48575-X97866124857561-60473-353-5(CKB)1000000000816892(EBL)515605(OCoLC)472610085(SSID)ssj0000335294(PQKBManifestationID)11241424(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000335294(PQKBWorkID)10273938(PQKB)11107177(StDuBDS)EDZ0000206333(MiAaPQ)EBC515605(Au-PeEL)EBL515605(CaPaEBR)ebr10340772(CaONFJC)MIL248600(EXLCZ)99100000000081689220140131d2009 fy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBluebeard a reader's guide to the English tradition /Casie E. HermanssonFirst edition.Jackson, [Miss.] University Press of Mississippic20091 online resource (321 pages)Description based upon print version of record.1-60473-230-X 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.Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales. 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. This is a major study of the tale and its many variants in English: from the 18th and 19th century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, to the 20th century in music, literature, art, film, and theatre.Bluebeard (Legendary character) in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticismAmerican literatureHistory and criticismFairy talesHistory and criticismFairy tales in literatureBluebeard (Legendary character) in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Fairy talesHistory and criticism.Fairy tales in literature.820/.9351Hermansson Casie1096842StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910955136903321Bluebeard4376864UNINA