Beasts of Burden: Biopolitics, Labor, and Animal Life in British Romanticism
(Part of the SUNY Series: Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Series)
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In Beasts of Burden, Ron Broglio examines how lives--human and animal--were counted in rural England and Scotland during the Romantic period. During this time, Britain experienced unprecedented data collection from censuses, ordinance surveys, and measurements of resources, all used to quantify the life and productivity of the nation. It was the dawn of biopolitics--the age in which biological life and its abilities became regulated by the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1438465688
ISBN13:9781438465685
Release Date:January 2018
Publisher:State University of New York Press
Length:178 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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