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.