After Happy Ever: Tender Extremities and Tangled Selves in Three Australasian Bluebeard Tales

This article identifies a critique of popular romance plots through unstable identities and disingenuous narrative perspectives in three Australasian Bluebeard tales. In these works by female writers in Australia and New Zealand, Bluebeard’s key tropes of fragmentation, repetition and revelation are...

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Main Author: Lucy Butler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Association for the Study of Popular Romance (IASPR) 2014-10-01
Series:Journal of Popular Romance Studies
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Online Access:https://www.jprstudies.org/2014/10/after-happy-ever-tender-extremities-and-tangled-selves-in-three-australasian-bluebeard-talesby-lucy-butler/