Donna Landry

Donna Landry teaches at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her books include The Invention of the Countryside: Hunting, Walking and Ecology in English Literature, 1671-1831.

Hunting: the English countryside's social levelling?

Roger Scruton is right to point out that hunting in England means transgressing private property boundaries as well as affirming cross-class ties within rural communities. The enjoyment of liberty by

By Donna Landry

/ 9 Jul 2002

Radical Walking

The English have long had a peculiar relationship to walking. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride strikes the right note of equestrian and motorised disdain. Yet Shankss pony

By Donna Landry

/ 19 Dec 2001