The Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs) - Hardcover

Davies, Mererid Puw

 
9780199242757: The Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)

Synopsis

"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.

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About the Author

Mereid Puw Davies is Lecturer in German at University College London.

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