Beasts of Burden - Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ron Broglio
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781438465685
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-6568-5
• No. of pages: 178
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: SUNY Series, Studies in the Lo; SUNY Series, Studies in the Lo
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies