Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism
Author:   Ron Broglio
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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9781438465678


Pages:   178
Publication Date:   01 April 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism


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Author:   Ron Broglio
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.386kg
ISBN:  

9781438465678


ISBN 10:   143846567
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   01 April 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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

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Ambitious and innovative, Beasts of Burden crackles with intelligence, warmth, and insight. - Review 19


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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.

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