She-wolf (eBook, PDF)

A cultural history of female werewolves
Redaktion: Priest, Hannah

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

She-wolf explores the cultural history of the female werewolf, from her first appearance in medieval literature to recent incarnations in film, television and popular literature. The book includes contributors from various disciplines, and offers a cross-period, interdisciplinary exploration of a perennially popular cultural production. The book covers material from the Middle Ages to the present day with chapters on folklore, history, witch trials, Victorian literature, young adult literature, film and gaming. Considering issues such as religious and social contexts, colonialism, constructions of racial and gendered identities, corporeality and subjectivity - as well as female body hair, sexuality and violence - She-wolf reveals the varied ways in which the female werewolf is a manifestation of complex cultural anxieties, as well as a site of continued fascination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House South Africa
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780719098192
• Artikelnr.: 60361883

Autorenporträt

Hannah Priest is an Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: A history of female werewolves
Hannah Priest 2. Estonian werewolf legends collected from the island of Saaremaa
Merili Metsvahi 3. 'She transformed into a werewolf, devouring and killing two children': trials of she
werewolves in early modern French Burgundy
Rolf Schulte 4. Participatory lycanthropy: female werewolves in Werewolf: The Apocalypse
Jay Cate 5. Fur girls and wolf women: fur, hair and subversive female lycanthropy
Jazmina Cininas 6. Female werewolf as monstrous other in Honoré Beaugrand's 'The Werewolves' Shannon Scott 7. 'The complex and antagonistic forces that constitute one soul': conflict between societal expectations and individual desires in Clemence Housman's 'The Werewolf' and Rosamund Marriott Watson's 'A Ballad of the Were
wolf'
Carys Crossen 8. I was a teenage she
wolf: boobs, blood and sacrifice
Hannah Priest 9. The case of the cut off hand: Angela Carter's werewolves in historical perspective
Willem de Blécourt 10. The she
wolves of horror cinema
Peter Hutchings 11. Ginger Snaps: the monstrous feminine as femme animale
Barbara Creed 12. Dans Ma Peau: shape
shifting and subjectivity
Laura Wilson Bibliography Index