In the Company of Wolves
Werewolves, Wolves and Wild Children
1st Edition
Published on 5. February 2020
312 pages
978-1-5261-2904-8 (ISBN)
Description
In the company of wolves presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, wild children and werewolves as portrayed in different media and genres.
We begin with the wolf itself as it has been interpreted as a cultural symbol and how it figures in contemporary debates about wilderness and nature. Alongside this, we consider eighteenth-century debates about wild children -- often thought to have been raised by wolves and other animals - and their role in key questions about the origins of language and society. The collection continues with essays on werewolves and other shapeshifters as depicted in folk tales, literature, film and TV, concluding with the transition from animal to human in contemporary art, poetry and fashion. -- .
We begin with the wolf itself as it has been interpreted as a cultural symbol and how it figures in contemporary debates about wilderness and nature. Alongside this, we consider eighteenth-century debates about wild children -- often thought to have been raised by wolves and other animals - and their role in key questions about the origins of language and society. The collection continues with essays on werewolves and other shapeshifters as depicted in folk tales, literature, film and TV, concluding with the transition from animal to human in contemporary art, poetry and fashion. -- .
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-2904-8 (9781526129048)
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Persons
Bill Hughes was recently awarded his doctorate from the University of Sheffield
Dr Samantha George is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Hertfordshire
Sam George is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Hertfordshire
Dr Samantha George is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Hertfordshire
Sam George is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Hertfordshire
Content
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: from preternatural pastoral to paranormal romance
- Part I: Cultural images of the wolf, the werewolf and the wolf-child
- Wolves and lies: a writer's perspective
- 'Man is a wolf to man': wolf behaviour becoming wolfish nature
- When wolves cry: wolf-children, storytelling and the state of nature
- 'Children of the night. What music they make!': the sound of the cinematic werewolf
- Part II: Innocence and experience: brute creation, wild beast or child of nature
- Wild sanctuary: running into the forest in Russian fairy tales
- 'No more than a brute or a wild beast': Wagner the Wehr-wolf, Sweeney Todd and the limits of human responsibility
- The inner beast: scientific experimentation in George MacDonald's 'The History of Photogen and Nycteris'
- Werewolves and white trash: brutishness, discrimination and the lower-class wolf-man from The Wolf Man to True Blood
- Part III: Reinventing the wolf: intertextual and metafictional manifestations
- 'The price of flesh is love': commodification, corporeality and paranormal romance in Angela Carter's beast tales
- Growing pains of the teenage werewolf: Young Adult literature and the metaphorical wolf
- 'I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself': the metafictional meanings of lycanthropic transformations in Doctor Who
- Part IV: Animal selves: becoming wolf
- A running wolf and other grey animals: the various shapes of Marcus Coates
- 'Stinking of me': transformations and animal selves in contemporary women's poetry
- Wearing the wolf: fur, fashion and species transvestism
- Bibliography
- Index
