| Description |
1 online resource (205 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Folklore and Fairy Tales |
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Routledge studies in folklore and fairy tales.
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| Summary |
This project provides an in-depth study of narratives about Bluebeard and his wives, or narratives with identifiable Bluebeard motifs, and the intertextual and extratextual personal, political, literary, and sociocultural factors that have made the tale a particularly fertile ground for an author's adaptation of the story. Whereas Charles Dickens, for example, expresses a sympathetic identification with Bluebeard, and a discernable strain of misogyny emerges in his recreation of the tale and recurrent allusions to it, his contemporary, William Makepeace Thackeray, uses the tale as a springb |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136096587 |
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1136096582 |
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