Reading the feral woman: Female werewolves and liminality in fantasy fiction

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Reading the feral woman: Female werewolves and liminality in fantasy fiction

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Previously representing the threat of infection, invasion and the possibility of an internal Other, the werewolf, traditionally male, has recently been joined by a subgroup of wolf-women in fantasy literature. I intend to examine the female werewolf as a ‘new’ archetype, tracking her presence in the overlapping genres of Gothic fiction and contemporary paranormal romance. I want to understand how the female werewolf engages with, and dramatizes, the portrayal of gender and binary issues such ...

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Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2018

Creator

Dewhurst, Hannah Leigh

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/12082

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fantasy / werewolf / werewolves / female werewolf / body image / liminality / abjection / morality tale / deviance / gender

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