Broglio, Ron, 1966-, Beasts of burden , 2017
- Title:
- Beasts of burden : biopolitics, labor, and animal life in British Romanticism / Ron Broglio.
- Published/Created:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2017.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryPR468.A56 B74 2017 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13067399
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-160) and index.
- 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.
- Subject Terms:
- Animals in art.Animals in art.Animals in literature.Animals in literature.English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.English literature.Farm life in literature.Farm life in literature.Great Britain.Human-animal relationships in literature.Human-animal relationships in literature.Romanticism -- Great Britain.Romanticism.
- Form/Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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