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000438977 1001_ $$aSmith, Jay M.,$$d1961-
000438977 24510 $$aMonsters of the Gévaudan$$h[electronic resource] :$$bthe making of a beast /$$cJay M. Smith.
000438977 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2011.
000438977 300__ $$a1 online resource (378 p.)
000438977 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000438977 5050_ $$aIntroduction: The beast and its world -- Sounding the alarm -- Monsters real and imagined -- Digesting defeat -- A star is born -- The perils of publicity -- Heroes and skeptics -- Exaggerated expectations and extraordinary endings -- Narrative echoes past and present -- Conclusion: The beast in history -- Note on place names.
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000438977 520__ $$aIn a brilliant, original rendition, Monsters of the Gévaudan revisits a spellbinding French tale that has captivated imaginations for over two hundred years, and offers the definitive explanation of the strange events that underlie this timeless story.In 1764 a peasant girl was killed and partially eaten while tending a flock of sheep. Eventually, over a hundred victims fell prey to a mysterious creature, or creatures, whose cunning and deadly efficiency terrorized the region and mesmerized Europe. The fearsome aggressor quickly took on mythic status, and the beast of the Gévaudan passed into French folklore.What species was this killer, why did it decapitate so many of its victims, and why did it prefer the flesh of women and children? Why did contemporaries assume that the beast was anything but a wolf, or a pack of wolves, as authorities eventually claimed, and why is the tale so often ignored in histories of the ancien régime? Smith finds the answer to these last two questions in an accident of timing. The beast was bound to be perceived as strange and anomalous because its ravages coincided with the emergence of modernity itself.Expertly situated within the social, intellectual, cultural, and political currents of French life in the 1760s, Monsters of the Gévaudan will engage a wide range of readers with both its recasting of the beast narrative and its compelling insights into the allure of the monstrous in historical memory.
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000438977 650_0 $$aPopular culture$$zFrance$$zGévaudan$$xHistory$$y18th century.
000438977 650_0 $$aBeast of Gévaudan$$xHistory.
000438977 650_0 $$aWolf attacks$$zFrance$$zGévaudan$$xHistory$$y18th century.
000438977 650_0 $$aWolves$$zFrance$$zGévaudan$$vFolklore.
000438977 650_0 $$aMonsters$$zFrance$$zGévaudan$$vFolklore.
000438977 650_0 $$aNarration (Rhetoric)$$xSocial aspects$$zFrance$$xHistory.
000438977 650_0 $$aDiscourse analysis, Narrative.
000438977 651_0 $$aGévaudan (France)$$xSocial life and customs$$y18th century.
000438977 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aSmith, Jay M., 1961-$$tMonsters of the Gévaudan.$$dCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011$$z9780674047167$$w(DLC) 2010044994$$w(OCoLC)676725351
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