Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-86873-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 309 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Folklore and Fairy Tales

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 springboard for his critique of avarice, hypocrisy, pretension, and the subjugation of women in Victorian society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barzilai, Shuli

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

1. The Snake-Charmer’s Wife in Genesis Rabbah, or Bluebeard Begins

2. Charles Dickens and Captain Murderer

3. Mr. Thackeray’s Closet

4. Miss Thackeray’s Uses of Enchantment

5. The Infernal Desire Machines in Anne Thackeray Ritchie’s Bluebeard’s Keys and Angela Carter’s "The Bloody Chamber"

6. The Bluebeard Syndrome in Margaret Atwood’s Lady Oracle: Fear and Femininity

7. The Party Consciousness: When Texts Get Together in Margaret Atwood’s "Bluebeard’s Egg"

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shuli Barzilai is Professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.