Landscape, literature and English religious culture, 1660-1800 : Samuel Johnson and languages of natural description / Robert J. Mayhew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mayhew, Robert J. (Robert John), 1971-

Series:

Studies in modern history (Palgrave (Firm))

Studies in modern history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784--Knowledge and learning--Natural history.

Johnson, Samuel.

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Natural history.

Landscapes in literature.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Rhetoric.

English language.

English language--Early modern--Rhetoric.

English language--18th century--Rhetoric.

Rhetoric.

Nature--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Nature.

Christianity and literature--England.

Christianity and literature.

Natural history--England--History.

Description (Rhetoric).

Nature in literature.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

vi, 426 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-420) and index.

ISBN:

033399308X

OCLC:

53162714