Landscape, Liberty and Authority
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought Series)
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Eighteenth-century landscape description formed part of a larger debate over the nature of liberty and authority which was vital to a Britain newly defining its nationhood in a period of growing imperial power and rapid economic change. Tim Fulford examines landscape description in the writings of Thomson, Cowper, Johnson, Gilpin, Repton, Wordsworth, Coleridge and others, revealing tensions that arose as writers struggled for authority over the public...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:052102742X
ISBN13:9780521027427
Release Date:November 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.89 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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