Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description

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Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800 offers a revisionist account of the intellectual significance of landscape descriptions during the long 18th century. Landscape has long been a major arena for debate about the nature of 18th century English culture; this book surveys those debates and offers its own account. Robert 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 18th century.