Monsters of the Gévaudan
Subtitle: the making of a beast
By: Jay M. Smith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780674047167
Subjects: Social life and customs; Beast of Gévaudan; Popular culture; Wolf attacks; Narration (Rhetoric); Folklore; Wolves; History; Monsters; Narrative Discourse analysis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The beast and its world; title: Sounding the alarm; title: Monsters real and imagined; title: Digesting defeat; title: A star is born; title: The perils of publicity; title: Heroes and skeptics; title: Exaggerated expectations and extraordinary endings; title: Narrative echoes past and present; title: Conclusion: The beast in history; title: Note on place names.