Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800 : Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description PDF
by R. Mayhew
Part of the Studies in Modern History series
Description
Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800 offers a powerful revisionist account of the intellectual significance of landscape descriptions during the 'long' Eighteenth-century.
Landscape has long been a major arena for debate about the nature of Eighteenth-century English culture; this book surveys those debates and offers a provocative new account.
Mayhew shows that describing landscape was a religiously contested practice, and that different theological positions led differing authors to different descriptive approaches.
Landscape description, then, shows English intellectual life still in the grips of a Christian and classical mentality in the 'long' Eighteenth-century.
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- Publication Date:15/03/2004
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- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan UK
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- ISBN:9780230504196
