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The werewolf in popular fiction has begun to change rapidly. Literary critics have observed this development and its impact on the werewolf in fiction, with theorists arguing that the modern werewolf offers new possibilities about how we view identity and the self. Although this monograph is preoccupied with the same concerns, it represents a departure from other critical works by analysing the werewolf's subjectivity/identity as a work-in-progress, where the fixed and final form is yet to be arrived at – and may never be fully accomplished. Using the critical theories of Deleuze and Guattari and their concepts of ‘multiplicities'and ‘becoming', this work argues that the werewolf is in a state of constant evolution as it develops new modes of being in popular fiction. Following on from this examination of lycanthropic subjectivity, the book goes on to examine the significant developments that have resulted from the advent of the werewolf as subject, few of which have received any sustained critical attention to date.

Werewolves in literature. --- Werewolves --- Lycanthropes --- Were-wolves --- Werwolves --- Animals, Mythical --- Wolves --- Shapeshifting --- History and criticism.

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Gothic revival (Art) --- Wolves in art. --- Werewolves in art.

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This book is a typological study of canids and canid imagery in Medieval Celtic cultures. It explores texts ranging from early Irish legal tracts and heroic narrative to exempla from Welsh, Breton, and later Scottish sources.

Celtic literature -- History and criticism. --- Shapeshifting. --- Werewolves in literature. --- Celtic literature --- Werewolves in literature --- Shapeshifting --- Languages & Literatures --- Celtic Languages & Literatures --- Metamorphosis --- Metamorphosis (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Shape-shifting --- Therianthropy --- Leopard men --- Melusine (Legendary character) --- Werewolves --- History and criticism

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Literary transformations from human to animal have occurred in myths, folklore, fairy tales and narratives from all over the world since ancient times, and have always provided a narrative space for depictions of power, agency, and the radical nature of change. In Following the Animal, these transformations are analysed with regards to their use in modern literature from northern-most Europe, with specific attention being paid to the insights they provide regarding the human-animal relationship, both generally in the industrialized West, and against the background of more specific circumstance

Literatur. --- Mensch. --- Metamorphose. --- Metamorphosis in literature. --- Scandinavian fiction --- Scandinavian fiction. --- Shapeshifting. --- Skandinavische Sprachen. --- Tiere. --- History and criticism. --- Blixen, Tania, --- Kallas, Aino, --- Strindberg, August, --- Metamorphosis --- Metamorphosis (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Shape-shifting --- Therianthropy --- Leopard men --- Melusine (Legendary character) --- Werewolves --- Scandinavian literature

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In a brilliant, original rendition, Monsters of the Gévaudan revisits a spellbinding French tale that has captivated imaginations for over two hundred years, and offers the definitive explanation of the strange events that underlie this timeless story. In 1764 a peasant girl was killed and partially eaten while tending a flock of sheep. Eventually, over a hundred victims fell prey to a mysterious creature, or creatures, whose cunning and deadly efficiency terrorized the region and mesmerized Europe. The fearsome aggressor quickly took on mythic status, and the beast of the Gévaudan passed into French folklore. What species was this killer, why did it decapitate so many of its victims, and why did it prefer the flesh of women and children? Why did contemporaries assume that the beast was anything but a wolf, or a pack of wolves, as authorities eventually claimed, and why is the tale so often ignored in histories of the ancient régime? Smith finds the answer to these last two questions in an accident of timing. The beast was bound to be perceived as strange and anomalous because its ravages coincided with the emergence of modernity itself. Expertly situated within the social, intellectual, cultural, and political currents of French life in the 1760's, Monsters of the Gévaudan will engage a wide range of readers with both its recasting of the beast narrative and its compelling insights into the allure of the monstrous in historical memory.

Beast of Gévaudan -- History. --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Monsters -- France -- Gévaudan -- Folklore. --- Narration (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects -- France -- History. --- Popular culture -- France -- Gévaudan -- History -- 18th century. --- Wolf attacks -- France -- Gévaudan -- History -- 18th century. --- Wolves -- France -- Gévaudan -- Folklore. --- Popular culture --- Beast of Gâevaudan --- Wolf attacks --- Wolves --- Monsters --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- France --- History --- Social aspects --- Beast of Gévaudan --- History. --- Gévaudan (France) --- Social life and customs --- Culture populaire --- Bête du Gévaudan --- Loups --- Monstres --- Narration --- Discours narratif --- Folklore --- Attaques --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Freaks --- Monsters, Double --- Monstrosities --- Attacks by wolves --- Gévaudan, Beast of --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Rhetoric --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Animals --- Curiosities and wonders --- Canis --- Animal attacks --- Human-wolf encounters --- Werewolves --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Abnormalities --- Social aspects.