Research Catalog

Title

Sir Thomas Browne : the world proposed / edited by Reid Barbour and Claire Preston.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barbour, Reid
• Preston, Claire

Description

xii, 368 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most stunning prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. To understand the period which we more usually refer to as the Civil War, the Restoration, or the Scientific Revolution, we need to understand parts of the intellectual and spiritual background that are often neglected and which Browne magnificently figures forth." "This collection of essays about all aspects of Thomas Browne's work and thought is the first such volume to appear in 25 years. It offers the specialist and the student a wide-ranging array of essays by an international team of leading scholars in seventeenth-century literary studies who extend our understanding of this extremely influential and representative early-modern polymath by embracing recent developments in the field, including literary-scientific relations, the development of Anglican spirituality, civil networks of intellectual exchange, the rise of antiquarianism, and Browne's own legacy in modern literature."--Jacket.

Subject

• Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682 > Criticism and interpretation
• Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682 > Influence
• Authors > History
• Physicians > history
• Natural History

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-351) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction. 'Many Things Untouch'd': Browne at 400 / Reid Barbour and Claire Preston -- pt. I. Habits of Thought -- 1. 'Speake that I may see thee': The Styles of Sir Thomas Browne / Sharon Cadman Seelig -- 2. Laudian Idiot / Debora Shuger -- 3. Thomas Browne and the Uses of Antiquity / Graham Parry -- 4. Browne Family's Culture of Curiosity / Brent Nelson -- 5. Engaging with Pygmies: Thomas Browne and John Milton / Karen L. Edwards -- 6. 'Wonders of the Invisible World': The Trial of the Lowestoft Witches / Victoria Silver -- pt. II. Works -- 7. Religio Medici's Profession of Faith / Brooke Conti -- 8. Brownean Motion: Conversation within Pseudodoxia Epidemica's 'Sober Circumference of Knowledge' / William N. West -- 9. Politcs of Painting: Pseudodoxia Epidemica and Iconoclasm / Kevin Killeen -- 10. 'An Incomium of Consumptions': A Letter to a Friend as Medical Narrative / Claire Preston -- 11. Urne Buriall, Cultural Difference, and the Question of Jewish Readmission / Achsah Guibbory -- 12. 'A Likely Story': Plato's Timaeus in the Garden of Cyrus / Kathryn Murphy -- 13. Mischellaneous Browne among the Tombs of Norwich Cathedral / Jonathan F.S. Post -- pt. III. Life and Afterlives -- 14. Hieroglyphies of Skin / Reid Barbour -- 15. Browne, Borges, and Back: Phantasmagories of Imaginative Learning / Roy Rosenstein -- 16. Thinking with Thomas Browne: Sebald and the Nachleben of the Antiquarian / Peter N. Miller.

ISBN

9780199236213 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2009277335

OCLC

• 243546207
• SCSB-11457227

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library