This is my free class on the 2020 animated film Wolfwalkers, from Cartoon Saloon. Feel free to share it widely! I’ll respond to comments and questions by email, in the comments below, or on twitter @doctormoffett!
Here is a list of sources I consulted in preparation for this lecture:
Borlik, Todd, A. Ecocriticism and Early Modern English Literature. Routledge, 2010.
Hopkins, Amanda, trans. “Melion” in Melion and Biclarel: Two Old French Werwolf Lays. Ed. Amanda Hopkins. 2005, Print, The University of Liverpool.
Kassell, Lauren. ""All was this land full fill'd of faerie," or Magic and the Past in Early Modern England." Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 67 no. 1, 2006, p. 107-122.
Mittman, Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel, eds. Primary Sources on Monsters: Demonstrare vol 2. ARC Humanities Press, 2018.
O'Meara, John J. The History and Topography of Ireland (topographia Hiberniae). By Gerald of Wales. Rev. ed. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities, 1982. Print. Dolmen Texts.
Patrick, and Aubrey Gwynn. The Writings of Bishop Patrick, 1074-1084. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1955. Print.
Sconduto, Leslie A. Metamorphoses of the Werewolf: A Literary Study from Antiquity Through the Renaissance. McFarland, 2008.
Scot, Reginald. The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Ed. Brinsley Nicholson. Project Gutenberg, 2019. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60766
Scott Wheeler, James. “The Defeat of the Irish Confederacy and the Second English Civil War.” The Irish and British Wars, 1637-1654. Routledge, 2002. 184–206. Web.
Music
Aislinn. Morrisson's jig - Leslie's March. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Aislinn/Aislinn/03_-_Aislinn_-_Morrissons_jig_-_Leslies_march/
Mendelssohn, Felix. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 – Scherzo. https://musopen.org/music/317-a-midsummer-nights-dream-op-61/
Sláinte. Britches Full of Stitches. Munster Bank. Bill Sullivan's (The A Polkas). https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Slinte/Cup_of_Tea/slainte_-_05_-_britches_full_of_stitches_munster_bank_bill_sullivans_the_a_polkas
Sláinte. Gander in the Pratie Hole, Morrison's Jig, Drowsy Maggie. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Slinte/Slinte/slinte_-_04_-_gander_in_the_pratie_hole_morrisons_jig_drowsy_maggie/
Sláinte. Scully's Reel. Mrs McLeod's. Cooley's Reel. https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Slinte/Cup_of_Tea/slainte_-_07_-_scullys_reel_mrs_mcleods_cooleys_reel/
Clockworks Academy theme by Paul Moffett
Images
Duncan, John. The Fomorians, 1912.
Landseer, Charles. The Battle of Naseby. 1800s.
"Tuan watches Nemed", illustration by Stephen Reid in T. W. Rolleston's Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race, 1911
Clips from The Secret of Kells, 2009, provided by Cartoon Saloon.
Clips from Wolfwalkers, 2020, provided by Cartoon Saloon.