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Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800

Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description

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  • © 2004

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Authors:
  1. Robert J. Mayhew

    1. University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

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Part of the book series: Studies in Modern History (SMH)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Historiography and Landscape Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Contextualizing Landscape History: Mainly with Respect to Eighteenth-Century England

      • Robert J. Mayhew
      Pages 3-25

    3. Landscape History: An Essay in Historiographical Method

      • Robert J. Mayhew
      Pages 26-38

  3. Landscape and Religion, 1660–1800: Preliminary Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. Diversity and Coherence in the Discourse of Landscape in the ‘Long’ Eighteenth Century: A Preliminary Survey

      • Robert J. Mayhew
      Pages 41-69

    3. Latitudinarianism and Landscape: Low-Church Attitudes to Nature, 1660–1800

      • Robert J. Mayhew
      Pages 70-126

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 318-426
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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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

    Robert J. Mayhew

About the author

ROBERT MAYHEW is a Lecturer in Historical Geography at the University of Wales Aberystwyth. He has published numerous articles in historical, literary and geographical journals and is author of Enlightenment Geography.

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