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An edition of Monsters of the Gévaudan (2011)

Monsters of the Gévaudan

the making of a beast

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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Language
English
Pages
378

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Subjects

Social life and customs, Beast of Gévaudan, Popular culture, Wolf attacks, Narration (Rhetoric), Folklore, Wolves, History, Monsters, Narrative Discourse analysis, Animals, NATURE, Social aspects, HISTORY, Manners and customs, Popular culture, france, Culture populaire, Histoire, Bête du Gévaudan, Loups, Attaques, Monstres, Narration, Aspect social, Discours narratif

Places

Gévaudan (France), Gévaudan, France

Times

18th century
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Monsters of the Gévaudan: the making of a beast
2011, Harvard University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
599.7730944/81
Library of Congress
DC611.G4 S64 2011, DC611.G4S64 2011, DC611.G4 S64 2011eb

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Pagination
378 p. :
Number of pages
378

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25568355M
Internet Archive
monstersofgevaud0000smit
ISBN 10
0674047168
ISBN 13
9780674047167
LCCN
2010044994
OCLC/WorldCat
676725351, 709593091

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OL16988451W

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