{"product_id":"9783032282996","title":"Foxes in Twenty-First Century British Literature Vulpine Encounters","description":"\u003ch3\u003ePalgrave Studies in Animals and Literature\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eFoxes in Twenty-First Century British Literature\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eVulpine Encounters\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eHelen Cousins\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Modern \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the changing representation of foxes in literature in the twenty-first century with a focus on British writing. It redefines the interspecies connection between foxes and humans by exploring how twenty-first-century texts counter the long history, and ongoing violence, of that relationship, whereby humans have usually written about how they shoot, poison, snare and hunt foxes. The recent identification of a ‘sixth extinction’ driven by human overconsumption that will decimate both rare and common species, necessitates a counterpoint to discourses of annihilation. There has been an upsurge in literary texts featuring animals reflecting an increasingly sympathetic human interest in nature and wildlife in the UK prompted by the environmental crisis and reinforced by the pandemic lockdown. Foxes' proximity to humans, and close interactions with them, make them powerful figures for challenging anthropocentric assumptions about the world through these fiction texts which reimagine the entanglement of foxes and humans. This book argues that the most powerful representations come from speculative elements of metamorphosis and not from more realistic portrayals of human stewardship (or scientific studies) which tend to reinforce the human\/other animal divide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHelen Cousins\u003c\/strong\u003e is Reader in Postcolonial Studies at Birmingham Newman University, UK, and has published on African literature, Black British literature, postcolonialism and feminism in a range of international journals. She has recently been appointed as an Associate Editor for the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Postcolonial Writing\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e07 August 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032282996\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e158\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990818996364,"sku":"9783032282996","price":107.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032282996.jpg?v=1781059712","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032282996","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}