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001479000 24510 $$aMonsters of the Gévaudan :$$bThe Making of a Beast /$$cJay M. Smith.
001479000 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2011]
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001479000 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tMaps -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. Sounding the Alarm -- $$t2. Monsters Real and Imagined -- $$t3. Digesting Defeat -- $$t4. A Star Is Born -- $$t5. The Perils of Publicity -- $$t6. Heroes and Skeptics -- $$t7. Exaggerated Expectations and Extraordinary Endings -- $$t8. Narrative Echoes Past and Present -- $$tConclusion -- $$tNotes -- $$tNote on Place Names -- $$tNote on Sources -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIndex
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001479000 520__ $$aIn a brilliant, original rendition, Monsters of the Gévaudan revisits a spellbinding French tale that has captivated imaginations for over two hundred years, and offers the definitive explanation of the strange events that underlie this timeless story.In 1764 a peasant girl was killed and partially eaten while tending a flock of sheep. Eventually, over a hundred victims fell prey to a mysterious creature, or creatures, whose cunning and deadly efficiency terrorized the region and mesmerized Europe. The fearsome aggressor quickly took on mythic status, and the beast of the Gévaudan passed into French folklore.What species was this killer, why did it decapitate so many of its victims, and why did it prefer the flesh of women and children? Why did contemporaries assume that the beast was anything but a wolf, or a pack of wolves, as authorities eventually claimed, and why is the tale so often ignored in histories of the ancien régime? Smith finds the answer to these last two questions in an accident of timing. The beast was bound to be perceived as strange and anomalous because its ravages coincided with the emergence of modernity itself.Expertly situated within the social, intellectual, cultural, and political currents of French life in the 1760s, Monsters of the Gévaudan will engage a wide range of readers with both its recasting of the beast narrative and its compelling insights into the allure of the monstrous in historical memory.
001479000 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
001479000 546__ $$aIn English.
001479000 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
001479000 650_0 $$aBeast of Gévaudan$$xHistory.
001479000 650_0 $$aDiscourse analysis, Narrative.
001479000 650_0 $$aMonsters$$zFrance$$zGévaudan$$vFolklore.
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001479000 650_0 $$aPopular culture$$zFrance$$zGévaudan$$xHistory$$y18th century.
001479000 650_0 $$aWolf attacks$$zFrance$$zGévaudan$$xHistory$$y18th century.
001479000 650_0 $$aWolves$$zFrance$$zGévaudan$$vFolklore.
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