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

By Robert Mayhew

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033399308X
• ISBN13: 9780333993088
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.8"