The Curse of the Werewolf
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The Curse of the Werewolf

Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within

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The Curse of the Werewolf

Fantasy, Horror and the Beast Within

About this book

Half-man-half-myth, the werewolf has over the years infiltrated popular culture in many strange and varied shapes, from Gothic horror to the 'body horror' films of the 1980s and today's graphic novels. Yet despite enormous critical interest in myths and in monsters, from vampires to cyborgs, the figure of the werewolf has been strangely overlooked. Embodying our primal fears - of anguished masculinity, of 'the beast within' - the werewolf, argues Bourgault du Coudray, has revealed in its various lupine guises radically shifting attitudes to the human psyche. Tracing the werewolf's 'use' by anthropologists and criminologists and shifting interpretations of the figure - from the 'scientific' to the mythological and psychological - Bourgault du Coudray also sees the werewolf in Freud's 'wolf-man' case and the sinister use of wolf imagery in Nazism. "The Curse of the Werewolf" looks finally at the werewolf's revival in contemporary fantasy, finding in this supposedly conservative genre a fascinating new model of the human's relationship to nature. It is a required reading for students of fantasy, myth and monsters. No self-respecting werewolf should be without it.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2006
Print ISBN
9781845111571
eBook ISBN
9780857711878
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Folklore & Mythology
Index
Social Sciences
21
WEREWOLVES 
AND 
SCHOLARS
F
IG
. 
1 
Title 
page 
woodcut, 
William 
and 
the 
Werwolf
.
Despite 
the 
fanciful 
connotations 
of 
the 
title 
page, 
the 
introductory 
notes 
to 
William 
and 
the 
Werwolf
set 
the 
tone 
for 
the 
empirically 
motivated 
genealogical 
studies 
of 
the 
werewolf 
myth 
that 
were 
to 
flower 
between 
the 
late 
1850s 
and 
about 
1875. 
In 
addition 
to 
the 
in-
troductory 
comments 
by 
the 
editor, 
which 
link 
the 
werewolf 
with 
the 
berserker 
traditions 
of 
Norse 
mythology 
popularized 
by 
Scott 
as 
well 
as 
referring 
to 
an 
early-modern 
tract 
on 
lycanthropy 
by 
the 
French 
demonologist 
Henri 
Boguet,
28
the 
book 
contains 
a 
discussion 
‘On 
Were-
wolves’ 
by 
Algernon 
Herbert. 
Although 
Herbert 
began 
his 
piece 
with 

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction: Shifting shapes of the werewolf
  6. 1. Werewolves and scholars
  7. 2. Upright citizens on all fours
  8. 3. I used to be a werewolf but I'm alright nowooooo
  9. 4. The call of the wild
  10. 5. Women who run with the wolves
  11. 6. A manifesto for werewolves
  12. Coda: In the footsteps of the werewolf
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index