'Beasts Without' - Representations of the Werewolf in Selected Short Narratives of the 19th Century

Representations of the Werewolf in Selected Short Narratives of the 19th Century

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,5, Ruhr-University of Bochum, language: English, abstract: The thesis examines the different types of fictional werewolves that evolved in the English literature of the (late) 19th century and also argues in favor of an interpretation which reads those werewolves as representative of the Victorian middle class' fears and processes of identity formation.