Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic
Distributed for University of Wales Press
304 pages
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6 halftones
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction, Robert McKay and John Miller
Social Anxieties
1 Like Father Like Son: Wolf-Men, Paternity and the Male Gothic
Hannah Priest
2 Wicked Wolf-Women and Shaggy Suffragettes: Lycanthropic Femmes 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
6 ‘Something that is either werewolf or vampire’: Interrogating the Lupine Nature of Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Kaja Franck
7 Saki, Nietzsche and the Superwolf
John Miller
8 A Vegetarian Diet for the Were-Wolf Hunger of Capital: Leftist and Pro-animal Thought in Guy Endore’s The Werewolf of Paris
Robert McKay
9 Everybody Eats Somebody: Angela Carter’s Wolfish Ecology
Margot Young
10 ‘But by Blood No Wolf Am I’: Language and Agency, Instinct and Essence – Transcending Antinomies in Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver Series
Bill Hughes
11 Transforming the Big Bad Wolf: Redefining the Werewolf through Grimm and Fables
Index
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction, Robert McKay and John Miller
Social Anxieties
1 Like Father Like Son: Wolf-Men, Paternity and the Male Gothic
Hannah Priest
2 Wicked Wolf-Women and Shaggy Suffragettes: Lycanthropic Femmes 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
6 ‘Something that is either werewolf or vampire’: Interrogating the Lupine Nature of Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Kaja Franck
7 Saki, Nietzsche and the Superwolf
John Miller
8 A Vegetarian Diet for the Were-Wolf Hunger of Capital: Leftist and Pro-animal Thought in Guy Endore’s The Werewolf of Paris
Robert McKay
9 Everybody Eats Somebody: Angela Carter’s Wolfish Ecology
Margot Young
10 ‘But by Blood No Wolf Am I’: Language and Agency, Instinct and Essence – Transcending Antinomies in Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver Series
Bill Hughes
11 Transforming the Big Bad Wolf: Redefining the Werewolf through Grimm and Fables
Index
Review Quotes
David Punter, University of Bristol
“This is an excellent collection, addressing one of the limits of the human as represented in the Gothic, namely the recurring theme of ‘becoming wolf’. The essays assume a wide variety of perspectives, in which the historical terrors, desires and hopes of the wolf are brought out into the light.”
Susan McHugh, University of New England
“Illuminating rising popular interests in everybody’s love-to-hate hairy monsters amid the decline of their real-life counterparts, this collection of essays makes a compelling case for investigating representations of werewolves and wolves at the nexus of literary animal studies and the ecoGothic.”
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