Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description (2004) (Studies in Modern History)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2004
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780230504196
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780333993088
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 12/11/20
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- Language:
- English
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- History, Nonfiction, Science, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Philosophy
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