Priest / Unknown She-wolf

A cultural history of female werewolves
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-7190-9819-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Web PDF

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Priest, Hannah

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Priest Hannah:
Hannah Priest is an Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea UniversityHannah Priest is an Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University