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

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

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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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