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Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives
Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives, The tale of Bluebeard's Wife—the story of a young woman who discovers that her mysterious blue-bearded husband has murdered his former spouses—no longer squares with what most parents consider good bedtime reading for their children. But the story has rem, Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives has a rating of 4.5 stars
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Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives, The tale of Bluebeard's Wife—the story of a young woman who discovers that her mysterious blue-bearded husband has murdered his former spouses—no longer squares with what most parents consider good bedtime reading for their children. But the story has rem, Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives
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  • Secrets beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives
  • Written by author Maria Tatar
  • Published by Princeton University Press, September 2006
  • The tale of Bluebeard's Wife—the story of a young woman who discovers that her mysterious blue-bearded husband has murdered his former spouses—no longer squares with what most parents consider good bedtime reading for their children. But the story has rem
  • "Learned. Readable. Entertaining. This is a fascinating exploration of a story that in one sense never changes, but at the same time is always changing, illuminating shifting cultural attitudes about marriage, secrecy, enterprising women and withheld men.
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List of Illustrationsxi
Introduction1
Chapter 1The Attractions of "Bluebeard": The Origins and Fortunes of a Folktale11
Chapter 2"Have you ever really been afraid?...of a man?...of a house?...of yourself?": Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and Modern Gothics67
Chapter 3Investigative Pleasures: Bluebeard's Wife in Hollywood89
Chapter 4Rewriting "Bluebeard": Resisting the Cult of Death108
Chapter 5Monstrous Wives: Bluebeard as Criminal and Cultural Hero132
Chapter 6The Art of Murder: Bluebeard as Artist and Aesthete152
Epilogue169
AppendixCultural Variants of "Bluebeard"175
"Bluebeard"175
"The Robber Bridegroom"179
"Fitcher's Bird"182
"Mr. Fox"185
"How the Devil Married Three Sisters"187
"The Hen Is Tripping in the Mountain"190
"The White Dove"194
"Mr. Fox"198
"How the Helpmate of Blue-Beard Made Free with a Door"202
"Blue-Beard's Closet," 1861205
Untitled Bluebeard Sonnet207
Notes209
Bibliography225
Primary Literature225
Secondary Literature229
Films239
Index241


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