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The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature

By Kaja Franck

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The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature

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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 Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature reassesses the Gothic werewolf to show how the relationship between humans and wolves has influenced its representation 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, Whitley Strieber andGlen Duncan, Kaja Franck reconsiders the trope of the 'beast within' in the werewolf canon.
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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
212
Release Date:
2025-09-18
Publication Date:
2025-09-18
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1350441120
ISBN13:
9781350441125
Weight:
487 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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