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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Broglio, Ron, 1966- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Series:	SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Animals in literature. Human-animal relationships in literature. Farm life in literature. Animals in art. Romanticism > Great Britain.

Table of Contents:

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.