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

Environmental History, Oct 2004

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.