Fox
Wallen, Martin
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BOOK SUMMARY
We know very little about the fox and its habitsand our ignorance, Martin Wallen argues, is rooted in the foxs bad reputation. Lowly, sly, and classified as vermin, foxes raid henhouses and garbage bins, spread disease, and injure domestic pets. At the sa
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We know very little about the fox and its habits--and our ignorance, Martin Wallen argues, is rooted in the fox's bad reputation. Lowly, sly, and classified as vermin, foxes raid henhouses and garbage bins, spread disease, and injure domestic pets. At the same time, foxes are often considered beautiful, mysterious, and even oddly human. This book is the first to fully explore the fox as the object of both derision and fascination, from the forests of North America to the deserts of Africa to the Arctic tundra.
Whether portrayed as an unrepentant thief, a shape-shifter, or an outlaw, the fox's primary purpose in literature, Wallen demonstrates, is to disrupt human order. In Chinese folklore, for example, the fox becomes a cunning mistress, luring human men away from their wives. Wallen also discusses the numerous ways in which fox-related terms have entered the vernacular, from "foxy lady" to the process of "foxing," or souring beer during fermentation. Thoughtful and illuminating, Fox shows that this lovely creature is as beguiling as it is controversial.
AUTHOR BIO
Martin Wallen is professor of English at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of Coleridges "Ancient Mariner": An Experimental Edition of Texts and Revisions and City of Health, Fields of Disease: Revolution in the Poetry, Medicine, and Philosophy of Romanticism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. The Fox in Nature2. Vulpine Myths, Folk Tales and Allegory3. The Linguistic Fox4. Fox-hunting5. The Commercial Fox6. Twentieth-century Fox: The Cinema TimelineEvolution ChartsGenera and Species ofFox WorldwideReferencesBibliographyAssociations and WebsitesAcknowledgementsPhoto AcknowledgementsIndex
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ISBN: 1861892977
ISBN(13-digit): 9781861892973
Dewey Decimal: 599.775
Library of Congress: oc2007062992
Book Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 206
