{"product_id":"in-the-company-of-wolves-werewolves-wolves-and-wild-children-9781526129031","title":"In the Company of Wolves: Werewolves, Wolves and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the company of wolves\u003c\/i\u003e presents further research from the Open Graves, Open Minds Project. It connects together innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, wild children and werewolves as portrayed in different media and genres.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe begin with the wolf itself as it has been interpreted as a cultural symbol and how it figures in contemporary debates about wilderness and nature. Alongside this, we consider eighteenth-century debates about wild children ­– often thought to have been raised by wolves and other animals – and their role in key questions about the origins of language and society. The collection continues with essays on werewolves and other shapeshifters as depicted in folk tales, literature, film and TV, concluding with the transition from animal to human in contemporary art, poetry and fashion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface - Sam George\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: from preternatural pastoral to paranormal romance - Sam George and Bill Hughes\u003cbr\u003ePart I : C ultural images of the wolf, the werewolf and the wolf-child\u003cbr\u003e1 Wolves and lies: a writer's perspective -Marcus Sedgwick\u003cbr\u003e2 ‘Man is a wolf to man’: wolf behaviour becoming wolfish nature - Garry Marvin\u003cbr\u003e3 When wolves cry: wolf-children, storytelling and the state of nature - Sam George\u003cbr\u003e4 ‘Children of the night. What music they make!’: the sound of the cinematic werewolf - Stacey Abbott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Innocence and experience: brute creation, wild beast or child of nature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Wild sanctuary: running into the forest in Russian fairy tales – Shannon Scott\u003cbr\u003e6 ‘No more than a brute or a wild beast’: \u003ci\u003eWagner the Werewolf\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSweeney Todd\u003c\/i\u003e, and the limits of human responsibility – Joseph Crawford\u003cbr\u003e7 The inner beast: scientific experimentation in George MacDonald’s 'The History of Photogen and Nycteris' – Rebecca Langworthy\u003cbr\u003e8 Werewolves and white trash: brutishness, discrimination and the lower-class wolfman from \u003ci\u003eThe Wolf Man\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eTrue Blood\u003c\/i\u003e – Victoria Amador\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Re-inventing the wolf: intertextual and metafictional manifestations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 ‘The price of flesh is love’: commodification, corporeality, and paranormal romance in Angela Carter’s beast tales – Bill Hughes\u003cbr\u003e10 Growing pains of the teenage werewolf: Young Adult literature and the metaphorical wolf – Kaja Franck\u003cbr\u003e11 ‘I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself’: the metafictional meanings of lycanthropic transformation in \u003ci\u003eDoctor Who\u003c\/i\u003e – Ivan Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Animal selves: becoming wolf  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12 A running wolf and other grey animals: the various shapes of Marcus Coates –Sarah Wade\u003cbr\u003e13 ‘Stinking of me’: transformations and animal selves in contemporary women’s poetry – Polly Atkin\u003cbr\u003e14 Wearing the wolf: fur, fashion and species transvestism – Catherine Spooner\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040994689367,"sku":"9781526129031","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526129031.jpg?v=1750948525","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-the-company-of-wolves-werewolves-wolves-and-wild-children-9781526129031","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}