Curiosity
Curiosity

Author: Barbara M. Benedict

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780226042640

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In this striking social history, Barbara M. Benedict draws on the texts of the early modern period to discover the era's attitudes toward curiosity, a trait we learn was often depicted as an unsavory form of transgression or cultural ambition.

Bluebeard
Bluebeard

Author: Casie Hermansson

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1604733535

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Bluebeard is the main character in one of the grisliest and most enduring fairy tales. A serial wife murderer, he keeps a horror chamber in which remains of all his previous matrimonial victims are secreted from his latest bride. She is given all the keys but forbidden to open one door of the castle. This is a major study of the tale and its many variants in English: from the 18th and 19th century chapbooks, children's toybooks, pantomimes, melodramas, and circus spectaculars, to the 20th century in music, literature, art, film, and theatre.