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Bill Hughes was recently awarded his doctorate from the University of Sheffield

Dr Samantha George is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Hertfordshire

Sam George is Senior Lecturer in Literature at the University of Hertfordshire

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This volume of essays presents innovative research from a variety of perspectives on the cultural significance of wolves, children raised by wolves, and werewolves, as portrayed in different media and genres.

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Preface - Sam George Introduction: from preternatural pastoral to paranormal romance - Sam George and Bill Hughes Part I : C ultural images of the wolf, the werewolf and the wolf-child 1 Wolves and lies: a writer's perspective -Marcus Sedgwick 2 'Man is a wolf to man': wolf behaviour becoming wolfish nature - Garry Marvin 3 When wolves cry: wolf-children, storytelling and the state of nature - Sam George 4 'Children of the night. What music they make!': the sound of the cinematic werewolf - Stacey Abbott Part II: Innocence and experience: brute creation, wild beast or child of nature 5 Wild sanctuary: running into the forest in Russian fairy tales - Shannon Scott 6 'No more than a brute or a wild beast': Wagner the Werewolf, Sweeney Todd, and the limits of human responsibility - Joseph Crawford 7 The inner beast: scientific experimentation in George MacDonald's 'The History of Photogen and Nycteris' - Rebecca Langworthy 8 Werewolves and white trash: brutishness, discrimination and the lower-class wolfman from The Wolf Man to True Blood - Victoria Amador Part III: Re-inventing the wolf: intertextual and metafictional manifestations 9 'The price of flesh is love': commodification, corporeality, and paranormal romance in Angela Carter's beast tales - Bill Hughes 10 Growing pains of the teenage werewolf: Young Adult literature and the metaphorical wolf - Kaja Franck 11 'I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself': the metafictional meanings of lycanthropic transformation in Doctor Who - Ivan Phillips Part IV: Animal selves: becoming wolf 12 A running wolf and other grey animals: the various shapes of Marcus Coates -Sarah Wade 13 'Stinking of me': transformations and animal selves in contemporary women's poetry - Polly Atkin 14 Wearing the wolf: fur, fashion and species transvestism - Catherine Spooner Bibliography Index