Fr. 139.00

The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature - Wolves, Woods and Wilderness

English · Hardback

Will be released 12.06.2025

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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.>

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