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.
| ISBN: | 9780333993088 |
| Publication date: | 16th March 2004 |
| Author: | Robert J Mayhew |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 426 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Modern History |
| Genres: |
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 European history History of science Literary studies: general Literature: history and criticism |