Bibliograph

Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660–1800, Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description, by Robert J. Mayhew

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Label

Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660–1800, Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description, by Robert J. Mayhew

Language

eng

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660–1800

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

69332905

Responsibility statement

by Robert J. Mayhew

Series statement

Springer

Sub title

Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description

Summary

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.--, Provided by publisher

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