Beasts of Burden
Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism
1st Edition
Published on 30. January 2017
178 pages
978-1-4384-6569-2 (ISBN)
Description
Uses literature, art, and cultural texts from the British Romantic period to explore the age in which biological life and its abilities first became regulated by the rising nation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 22
Total Illustrations: 22
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-6569-2 (9781438465692)
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Ron Broglio is Associate Professor of English and Senior Scholar in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University. He is the author of Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art and Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments, 1750-1830.
Content
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Animal Life and Rural Labor: Literary and Material Resistance in Biopolitical Britain
2. Docile Numbers and Stubborn Bodies: Population and the Problem of Multitude
3. On Vulnerability: Studies from Life That Ought Not to Be Copied
4. Wonder as Resistance: Sheep, Fairies, and James Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd
5. Animal Dwelling in Natural History: Thomas Bewick, George Stubbs, and Corporality
6. Man Proposes, Animality Disposes: Antihuman Landseer with Implications for Biopolitical Britain
7. Afterword: Romanticism in the Dust of This Planet
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
1. Animal Life and Rural Labor: Literary and Material Resistance in Biopolitical Britain
2. Docile Numbers and Stubborn Bodies: Population and the Problem of Multitude
3. On Vulnerability: Studies from Life That Ought Not to Be Copied
4. Wonder as Resistance: Sheep, Fairies, and James Hogg the Ettrick Shepherd
5. Animal Dwelling in Natural History: Thomas Bewick, George Stubbs, and Corporality
6. Man Proposes, Animality Disposes: Antihuman Landseer with Implications for Biopolitical Britain
7. Afterword: Romanticism in the Dust of This Planet
Notes
Bibliography
Index
