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LANDSCAPE, LITERATURE AND ENGLISH RELIGIOUS CULTURE, 1660-18 IBD

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05 / 2004
9780333993088
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Sinopsis

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.

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132,16