In the company of wolves : werewolves, wolves and wild children / edited by Sam George and Bill Hughes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George, Sam, Dr., editor.

Hughes, Bill, 1955- editor.

Series:

Manchester University Press Series

Manchester University Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feral children in literature.

Feral children in popular culture.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Metamorphosis in literature.

Shapeshifting.

Werewolves in literature.

Werewolves in popular culture.

Wolves in literature.

Wolves in popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, England : Manchester University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Cultural images of the wolf, the werewolf and the wolf-child

1.Wolves and lies: a writer's perspective / Marcus Sedgwick

2.`Man is a wolf to man': wolf behaviour becoming wolfish nature / Garry Marvin

3.When wolves cry: wolf-children, storytelling and the state of nature / Sam George

4.`Children of the night. What music they make!': the sound of the cinematic werewolf / Stacey Abbott

pt. II Innocence and experience: brute creation, wild beast or child of nature

5.Wild sanctuary: running into the forest in Russian fairy tales / Shannon Scott

6.`No more than a brute or a wild beast': Wagner the Wehr-wolf Sweeney Todd and the limits of human responsibility / Joseph Crawford

7.The inner beast: scientific experimentation in George MacDonald's "The History of Photogen and Nycteris' / Rebecca Langworthy

8.Werewolves and white trash: brutishness, discrimination and the lower-class wolf-man from The Wolf Man to True Blood / Victoria Amador

pt. III Reinventing the wolf: inter textual and metafictional manifestations

9.`The price of flesh is love': commodification, corporeality and paranormal romance in Angela Carter's beast tales / Bill Hughes

10.Growing pains of the teenage werewolf: Young Adult literature and the metaphorical wolf / Kaja Franck

11.`I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself: the metafictional meanings of lycanthropic transformations in Doctor Who / Ivan Phillips

pt. IV Animal selves: becoming wolf

12.A running wolf and other grey animals: the various shapes of Marcus Coates / Sarah Wade

13.`Stinking of me': transformations and animal selves in contemporary women's poetry / Polly Atkin

14.Wearing the wolf: fur, fashion and species transvestism / Catherine Spooner.

Notes:

Description based on print record and publisher's data.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526171979

152617197X

9781526129031

1526129035

OCLC:

1149149937