Hermansson, Casie.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.
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Notes:

• 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.

Subjects:

• Bluebeard (Legendary character) in literature.
• English literature — History and criticism.
• American literature — History and criticism.
• Fairy tales — History and criticism.
• Fairy tales in literature.
• Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703. Barbe-bleue.
• Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703 — Adaptations.
• Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703 — Translations into English — History and criticism.

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