Broglio Beasts of Burden

Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6569-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Broglio, Ron

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.