Landscape, literature, and English religious culture, 1660-1800: Samuel Johnson and languages of natural description

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Acknowledgements PART I: HISTORIOGRAPHY AND LANDSCAPE STUDIES Contextualising Landscape History Landscape History: An Essay in Historiographical Method PART II: LANDSCAPE AND RELIGION, 1660-1800: PRELIMINARY CONTEXTS Diversity and Coherence in the Discourse of Landscape in the 'Long' Eighteenth Century: A Preliminary Survey Latitudinarianism and Landscape: Low Church Attitudes to Nature, 1660-1800 PART III: SAMUEL JOHNSON, HIGH CHURCHMANSHIP AND LANDSCAPE The Lexicon of Landscape: Johnson's Dictionary and the Language of Natural Description The Moral Landscape: Johnson's Doctrine of Landscape, 1738-59 The Empirical Landscape: Johnson and the Factual Description of the Natural World, 1735-75 Life, Literature and Landscape: The Role of the Natural World in Johnson's Biographies and Biography, 1739-84 Conclusion: The Unfamiliar Prospect of Eighteenth Century Landscape Studies Notes Bibliography