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.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Werewolves in Western Culture
3. What Monsters Tell Us About Identity-Formation
4. The Werewolf in Selected Short Narratives of the Nineteenth Century
4.1 ‘Beasts Without’: the Werewolf as Cultural ‘Other’
4.2 ‘Beasts Below’: the Werewolf as Working-Class Member
4.3 ‘Beasts Above’: the Werewolf as Debauched Aristocrat
4.4 ‘Beasts in White’: the Female Werewolf
4.5 ‘Beasts Within’, or: “Much deeper in the nature of man”
5. Conclusion
6. Works Cited
7. List of Illustrations
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