The Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature - From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Hardcover, New)


'Bluebeard', in which women are slaughtered and hidden in a horrible chamber by a monstrous husband, is hair-raising; yet its happy ending gives it a utopian force. Davies's book focuses on literature in German from the eighteenth century to the 1990s, and is the first full-length study of the history of Bluebeard published in any language.

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'Bluebeard', in which women are slaughtered and hidden in a horrible chamber by a monstrous husband, is hair-raising; yet its happy ending gives it a utopian force. Davies's book focuses on literature in German from the eighteenth century to the 1990s, and is the first full-length study of the history of Bluebeard published in any language.

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Product Details

General

Imprint

Oxford UniversityPress

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Series

Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs

Release date

March 2001

Availability

Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days

First published

May 2001

Authors

Dimensions

224 x 146 x 21mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

296

Edition

New

ISBN-13

978-0-19-924275-7

Barcode

9780199242757

Categories

LSN

0-19-924275-5



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