Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-x

List of Illustrations

pp xi-xiv

Preface and Acknowledgments

pp xv-xvi

List of Abbreviations

pp xvii-xviii

Poem: Trophic Cascade by Camille T Dungy

pp xix-xx

Foreword

pp xxi-xxiv

Part I - Imagining the Wolf

pp 1-2

1 - The Wolf in the Human Mind Across Space and Time

pp 3-20

2 - A History of Wolves and People in France

pp 21-36

3 - Wolves and Other Mammals Hunted in Medieval English Forests

pp 37-46

4 - ‘Uuluesheued!’ The Historical Significance of the Wolf to Early Indo-Europeans

pp 47-56

5 - Wolves Behind Bars

pp 57-68

6 - Nazi Werewolves from Outer Space: Posthuman-Wolf-Multiplicities and their (Mis)appropriations

pp 69-82

7 - Never Mind the Girl; What About the Wolf?

pp 83-92

8 - Whose Wolf Is It Anyway? Wolves, Wilderness and Belonging

pp 93-98

9 - Defined ‘as much by their absence as their iconography’: Reimagining Wolves in Cumbria in Sarah Hall’s The Wolf Border

pp 99-106

10 - A ‘Wasteland’ Infested by Wolves: The Fallacy of ‘Dark Age’ England

pp 107-116

Part II - What Makes the Wolf

pp 117-118

11 - The Wolf Pack

pp 119-130

12 - The Wolf in the Pastoral System of Southern France

pp 131-144

13 - Contemporary Public Images of the Wolf

pp 145-150

14 - The Sweetness of Freedom: Reflections on the Occasion of the Japanese Wolf

pp 151-160

15 - Reimagining the Dingo: The ‘Australian Wolf ’ or Just a Feral Dog?

pp 161-178

16 - Pushing the Ecological Niche: A Sea Wolf Called Takaya

pp 179-190

17 - ‘Hunger-Greedy Appetite’: The Wolf in Early-Modern English Natural History

pp 191-202

18 - What About the Coywolf?

pp 203-216

19 - Is That a Wolf? Politics, Science and Red Wolf Identity

pp 217-230

20 - The Thylacine: A Wolf in Name Only

pp 231-236