Villain, vermin, icon, kin : wolves and the making of Canada /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Rutherford, Stephanie, author.
Imprint:	Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Subject:	Wolves -- Canada. Wolves -- Social aspects -- Canada. Wolves in literature. Human-animal relationships -- Canada. Animals and civilization -- Canada. Animals and civilization. Human-animal relationships. Wolves. Wolves in literature. Canada.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13914495

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ISBN:	9780228013419 0228013402 9780228013402 0228013410 9780228011071 9780228011088
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 16, 2022).
Summary:	"A wolf's howl is felt in the body. Frightening and compelling, incomprehensible or entirely knowable, it is a sound that may be heard as threat or invitation but leaves no listener unaffected. Toothsome fiends, interfering pests, or creatures wild and free, wolves have been at the heart of Canada's national story since long before Confederation. Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin contends that the role in which wolves have been cast - monster or hero - has changed dramatically through time. Exploring the social history of wolves in Canada, Stephanie Rutherford weaves an innovative tapestry from the varied threads of historical and contemporary texts, ideas, and practices in human-wolf relations, from provincial bounties to Farley Mowat's iconic Never Cry Wolf. These examples reveal that Canada was made, in part, through relationships with nonhuman animals. Wolves have always captured the human imagination. In sketching out the connections people have had with wolves at different times, Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin offers a model for more ethical ways of interacting with animals in the face of a global biodiversity crisis."--
Other form:	Print version: Rutherford, Stephanie. Villain, vermin, icon, kin. Montreal ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 0228011078 9780228011071

Table of Contents:

Part one. Villains and vermin. Fear : settler encounters with wildness out of place
Disgust : bounties and bureaucracies of extermination
Part two. Recuperating the wolf. Passion : writing the wolf in Canadian literature
Curiosity : the scientific reimagining of a predator
Devotion : wolf love in modern times
Part three. Knowing the wolf. Ambivalence : dwelling in multispecies assemblages
Empathy : indigenous teachings offer a way out (and in)
Epilogue: The hazards of a symbol.

Villain, vermin, icon, kin : wolves and the making of Canada /

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