Beasts of burden : biopolitics, labor, and animal life in British Romanticism /

Broglio, Ron, 1966-

Beasts of burden : biopolitics, labor, and animal life in British Romanticism / Ron Broglio. - Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Animal life and rural labor: Literary and material resistance in biopolitical Britain -- Docile numbers and stubborn bodies: Population and the problem of multitude -- On vulnerability: Studies from life that ought not to be copied -- Wonder as resistance: Sheep, fairies, and James Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd -- Animal dwelling in natural history: Thomas Bewick, George Stubbs, and corporality -- Man proposes, animality disposes: Antihuman landseer with implications for biopolitical Britain -- Afterword: Romanticism in the dust of this planet.



9781438465692

2016050700


English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Animals in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Farm life in literature.
Animals in art.
Romanticism--Great Britain.


Electronic Books.

PR468 / .B437 2017