Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description (Studies in Modern History)
Unknown Author
ISBN: | 9780333993088 |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Published: | 28 May, 2004 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description (Studies in Modern History)
Unknown Author
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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