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...

• 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"