Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Broglio, Ron, 1966-
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
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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:
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. | Animals in art. | Animals in literature. | English literature. | Farm life in literature. | Human-animal relationships in literature. | Romanticism. | Great Britain.
Form/Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.