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

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From: Environmental History
Date: 20041001
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Mayhew, Robert J. Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800: Samuel Johnson and Languages of Natural Description. Studies in Modern History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. vi + 426 pp. Bibliography, index. $85.00. On the relationship between Christianity and the practice of writing about nature and landscape in late-seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. Focuses especially on the role of English author and literary critic Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) in influencing cultural perceptions of nature.

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