Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-160) and index.
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