Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349431854)

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.

Author: R. Mayhew
ISBN-10: 1349431850
ISBN-13: 9781349431854
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2004
Pages: 426
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.97d