The Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present

by Mererid Puw Davies

Overview

"Bluebeard," in which women are slaughtered by a monstrous husband and their bodies hidden in a horrible chamber, is the most hair-raising of tales; yet with its happy ending, it also has a utopian force. This book, the first such full-length study in any language, considers Bluebeard texts as a seismograph of gender politics and of the process of civilization from seventeenth-century France to 1990s Germany, in a broad range of canonical and non-canonical texts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199242757
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/24/2001
Series:	Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

University College London

Table of Contents

1. Unendliche Geschichte? Reading Märchen2. Bluebeard - A Subversive Narrative. Some Theoretical Ideas3. Narratives of Origin4. The Moral(s) of the Story: Early Versions of 'Blaubart'5. The Collector: E. Marlitt, 'Blaubart'6. 'Der gute Blaubart': Bluebeard at the Turn of the Century7. 'Ich . . . verleiss das Haus in Morgengrauen': Bluebeard in the Later Twentieth Century8. Blaubarts Schatten: Some ConclusionsBibliographyIndex