The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature
Wolves, Woods and Wilderness
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2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-44112-5 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-44112-5 (ISBN)
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Using an Ecogothic lens, this book offers a new conceptual framework for the werewolf in literature, recasting the lycanthrope as an emblem for society’s fear of untamed wilderness. Tracing lycanthropy from a place of liminality to hybridity and to myriad and complex subjectivities, The Ecogothihc Werewolf in Literature undermines the Gothic werewolf to show how the relationship between humans and wolves has impacted the representation of the werewolf in literature. Starting with Dracula and tracing lycanthropic imaginings through natural histories, folk and fairy tales to contemporary iterations in the works of Maggie Stiefvater, Annette Curtis and Anne Rice, Kaja Franck interrogates and stabilises a canon for werewolf studies.
From early conservationist Aldo Leopold’s awakening regarding the death of wolves, to George Monbiot’s call to rewild, tensions around humanity’s responsibility to the natural world have emerged in lycanthropic literature. A challenge to previous anthropocentric analysis of Gothic horror’s stock monster, Franck considers the changing attitude towards wolves alongside the growing environmentalism movement, and reclaims the wolf from the figure of the werewolf.
From early conservationist Aldo Leopold’s awakening regarding the death of wolves, to George Monbiot’s call to rewild, tensions around humanity’s responsibility to the natural world have emerged in lycanthropic literature. A challenge to previous anthropocentric analysis of Gothic horror’s stock monster, Franck considers the changing attitude towards wolves alongside the growing environmentalism movement, and reclaims the wolf from the figure of the werewolf.
Kaja Franck is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She is the co-organiser of the 'Open Graves, Open Minds' research project, which is dedicated to supernatural creatures in popular culture.
Introduction: The Shifting Werewolf: Bodies and Meaning Transformed
Chapter 1: Dracula: The Wolf in Vampire's Clothing
Chapter 2: The American Wilderness and the Werewolf
Chapter 3: The Werewolf in the Woods: Young Adult Gothic and Metaphoric Lycanthropy
Chapter 4: The Return of the Werewolf: The Monstrous Voice at Boundary between Human and Animal
Conclusion: The Hopeful Werewolf and the Environmental Apocalypse
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| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.7.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction |
| Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-44112-0 / 1350441120 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-44112-5 / 9781350441125 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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