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The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature

Dr Kaja Franck

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  • 240 sidor
  • 2025
Using an Ecogothic lens, this book offers a new conceptual framework for the werewolf in literature, recasting the lycanthrope as an emblem for societys 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 and Glen Duncan, Kaja Franck reconsiders the trope of the beast within in the werewolf canon. From early conservationist Aldo Leopolds awakening regarding the death of wolves, to George Monbiots call to rewild, tensions around humanitys responsibility to the natural world have emerged in lycanthropic literature. A challenge to previous anthropocentric analysis of Gothic horrors stock monster, Franck considers the changing attitude towards wolves alongside the growing environmentalism movement and reclaims the wolf from the figure of the werewolf.
  • Författare: Dr Kaja Franck
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781350441125
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-09-18
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Academic