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Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic

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Wolves lope across Gothic imagination. Signs of a pure animality opposed to humanity, in the figure of the werewolf they become liminal creatures that move between the human and the animal. Werewolves function as a site for exploring complex anxieties of difference – of gender, class, race, space, nation or sexuality – but the imaginative and ideological uses of wolves also reflect back on the lives of material animals, long persecuted in their declining habitats across the world. Werewolves therefore raise unsettling questions about the intersection of the real and the imaginary, the instability of human identities and the worldliness and political weight of the Gothic.This is the first volume concerned with the appearance of werewolves and wolves in literary and cultural texts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on representations of werewolves and wolves in literature, film, television and visual culture, the essays investigate the key texts of the lycanthropic canon alongside lesser-known works from the 1890s to the present. The result is an innovative study that is both theoretically aware and historically nuanced, featuring an international list of established and emerging scholars based in Britain, Europe, North America and Australia.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-09-15
Mått138 x 216 x 30 mm
Vikt502 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGothic Literary Studies
Antal sidor304
FörlagUniversity of Wales Press
ISBN9781786831026

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AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroduction, Robert McKay and John MillerSocial Anxieties1.Like Father Like Son: Wolf-Men, Paternity and the Male Gothic, Hannah Priest2.Wicked Wolf-Women and Shaggy Suffragettes: Lycanthropic Femme Fatales in the Victorian and Edwardian Eras, Jazmina Cininas 3.Postcolonial Vanishings: Wolves, American Indians, and Contemporary Werewolves, Michelle Nicole Boyer 4.The Good, the Bad, and the Ubernatural: The Other(ed) Werewolf in Twilight, Roman Bartosch and Celestine Caruso 5. ‘Becoming woman’/Becoming Wolf: Girl Power and the Monstrous Feminine in the Ginger Snaps Trilogy, Batia Boe Stolar Species Troubles6.‘Something that is either werewolf or vampire’: Interrogating the Lupine Nature of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Kaja Franck7.Saki, Nietzsche and the Superwolf, John Miller8.A Vegetarian Diet for the Were-wolf Hunger of Capital: Leftist and Pro-animal Thought in Guy Endore’s The Werewolf of Paris, Robert McKay9.Everybody Eats Somebody: Angela Carter’s Wolfish Ecology, Margot Young10.‘But by Blood No Wolf Am I’: Language and Agency, Instinct and Essence – Transcending Antinomies in Maggie Steifvater’s Shiver Trilogy, Bill Hughes 11.Transforming the Big Bad Wolf: Redefining the Werewolf through Grimm and Fables, Matthew Lerberg