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The Fox-Hunting Controversy, 1781-2004

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The Fox-Hunting Controversy, 1781-2004 book

Class and Cruelty

The Fox-Hunting Controversy, 1781-2004

DOI link for The Fox-Hunting Controversy, 1781-2004

The Fox-Hunting Controversy, 1781-2004 book

Class and Cruelty
ByAllyson N. May
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 16 March 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315558028
Pages 220 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315558028
SubjectsHumanities, Language & Literature, Politics & International Relations
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May, A. (2013). The Fox-Hunting Controversy, 1781-2004. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315558028

August 1781 saw the publication of a manual on fox hunting that would become a classic of its genre. Hugely popular in its own day, Peter Beckford's Thoughts on Hunting is often cited as marking the birth of modern hunting and continues to be quoted from affectionately today by the hunting fraternity. Less stressed is the fact that its subject was immediately controversial, and that a hostile review which appeared on the heels of the manual's publication raised two criticisms of fox hunting that would be repeated over the next two centuries: fox hunting was a cruel sport and a feudal, anachronistic one at that. This study explores the attacks made on fox hunting from 1781 to the legal ban achieved in 2004, as well as assessing the reasons for its continued appeal and post-ban survival. Chapters cover debates in the areas of: class and hunting; concerns over cruelty and animal welfare; party politics; the hunt in literature; and nostalgia. By adopting a thematic approach, the author is able to draw out the wider social and cultural implications of the debates, and to explore what they tell us about national identity, social mores and social relations in modern Britain.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|38 pages

The Field

chapter 3|33 pages

‘The Cricket of Savages’?: Class and Cruelty

chapter 4|43 pages

‘Come Hup! I say, you hugly beast’!: The Hunt in Literature

chapter 5|26 pages

Labour and the Fox

chapter 6|34 pages

The Flight from Modernity: Nostalgia and the Hunt

chapter 7|6 pages

Conclusion

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