| Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Mayhew, R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1349431850 ISBN-13: 9781349431854 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - Science | History |
| Dewey: 828.609 |
| Series: Studies in Modern History |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.21 lbs) 426 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |