Noble Brutes - How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture

Informationen zum Autor Donna Landry is a professor of English at the University of Kent and author of The Invention of the Countryside: Hunting, Walking, and Ecology in English Literature, 1671–1831 and The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women’s Poetry in Britain, 1739–1796 . Klappentext This radical reinterpretation of Ottoman and Arab influences on horsemanship and breeding sheds new light on English national identity, as illustrated in such classic works as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and George Stubbs's portrait of Whistlejacket. Zusammenfassung This radical reinterpretation of Ottoman and Arab influences on horsemanship and breeding sheds new light on English national identity! as illustrated in such classic works as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and George Stubbs's portrait of Whistlejacket.

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• Authors: Donna Landry, Donna (Professor of English and American L Landry, Donna (Professor of English and American Literature Landry
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.03.2009
• EAN: 9780801890284
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-9028-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Animals, History, Culture; Animals, History, Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Horses, riding; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; England, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PETS / Horses, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Horses & ponies, C 1600 To C 1700, Equestrian & animal sports, Equestrian and animal sports, C 1700 To C 1800, Horses and ponies: general interest, SPORTS & RECREATION / Animal Sports / General