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Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description

Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description

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Series: Studies in Modern History

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 033399308X
ISBN13: 9780333993088
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Mar 16 2004
Pages: 426
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.08 Width: 5.66 Depth: 8.78
Language: English
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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