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

by Ron Broglio

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"