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

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

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Book ID
100046575
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2017
Tongue
en-US
Weight
696 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1438465696

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✦ Synopsis


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.