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Landry, Donna (Professor of English and American Literature, Rutherford College, University of Kent)
Noble Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture - Animals, History, Culture
Landry, Donna (Professor of English and American Literature, Rutherford College, University of Kent)
Noble Brutes: How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture - Animals, History, Culture
Landry, Donna (Professor of English and American Literature, Rutherford College, University of Kent)
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.
248 pages, 12 halftones
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 23, 2008 |
| Original release date | 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780801890284 |
| Publishers | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Pages | 248 |
| Dimensions | 162 × 236 × 21 mm · 476 g |
| Language | English |