Sir Thomas Browne
The World Proposed
Herausgeber: Barbour, Reid; Preston, Claire
Sir Thomas Browne
The World Proposed
Herausgeber: Barbour, Reid; Preston, Claire
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An impressive line-up of scholars from across the world explore the significance of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82), a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Doctor, linguist, scientist, and natural historian, Browne was also the writer of some of the most remarkable prose in the English language.
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An impressive line-up of scholars from across the world explore the significance of Sir Thomas Browne (1605-82), a virtuoso in learning whose many interests form a representative portrait of his age. Doctor, linguist, scientist, and natural historian, Browne was also the writer of some of the most remarkable prose in the English language.
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- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 368
- Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 794g
- ISBN-13: 9780199236213
- ISBN-10: 0199236216
- Artikelnr.: 25043264
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 368
- Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2009
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
- Gewicht: 794g
- ISBN-13: 9780199236213
- ISBN-10: 0199236216
- Artikelnr.: 25043264
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Libri GmbH
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- 06621 890
Claire Preston is Fellow in English at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her research interests include the literature and science of the 16th and 17th centuries; early-modern word-image relations; Philip Sidney and his circle; and American literature of the Gilded Age and of the Progressive Era. Reid Barbour is Gillian T Cell Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina. His research interests include sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England; intellectual history; the history of classical transmission; the history of science; and the history of religion. He is currently working on a biography of Sir Thomas Browne and on an edition of Lucy Hutchinson's Lucretius for OUP.
* Introduction: 'Browne at 400'
* Part I: Habits of Thought
* 1: Sharon Seelig: 'Speake that I may see thee': the styles of Sir
Thomas Browne
* 2: Debora Shuger: The Laudian Idiot
* 3: Graham Parry: Thomas Browne and the Uses of Antiquity
* 4: Brent Nelson: The Browne Family's Culture of Curiosity
* 5: Karen Edwards: Engaging with Pygmies: Thomas Browne and John
Milton
* 6: Victoria Silver: 'Wonders of the Invisible World': The Bury St.
Edmunds Witchcraft Trial Redux
* Part II: Works
* 7: Brooke Conti: Religio Medici's Profession of Faith
* 8: William N. West: Brownean Motion: Conversation within Pseudodoxia
Epidemica's 'Sober Circumference of Knowledge'
* 9: Kevin Killeen: The Politics of Painting: Pseudodoxia Epidemica
and Iconoclasm
* 10: Claire Preston: 'An Incomium of Consumptions': A Letter to a
Friend as Medical Narrative
* 11: Achsah Guibbory: Urne -Buriall, Cultural Difference, and the
Question of Jewish Readmission
* 12: Kathryn Murphy: 'A Likely Story': Plato's Timaeus in the Garden
of Cyrus
* 13: Jonathan F.S. Post: Miscellaneous Browne Among the Tombs of
Norwich Cathedral
* Part III: (After)Lives
* 14: Reid Barbour: The Hieroglyphics of Skin
* 15: Roy Rosenstein: Browne, Borges, and Back: Phantasmagories of
Imaginative Learning
* 16: Peter N. Miller: Thinking with Thomas Browne: Sebald and the
Nachleben of the Antiquarian
* Bibliography
* The Contributors
* Part I: Habits of Thought
* 1: Sharon Seelig: 'Speake that I may see thee': the styles of Sir
Thomas Browne
* 2: Debora Shuger: The Laudian Idiot
* 3: Graham Parry: Thomas Browne and the Uses of Antiquity
* 4: Brent Nelson: The Browne Family's Culture of Curiosity
* 5: Karen Edwards: Engaging with Pygmies: Thomas Browne and John
Milton
* 6: Victoria Silver: 'Wonders of the Invisible World': The Bury St.
Edmunds Witchcraft Trial Redux
* Part II: Works
* 7: Brooke Conti: Religio Medici's Profession of Faith
* 8: William N. West: Brownean Motion: Conversation within Pseudodoxia
Epidemica's 'Sober Circumference of Knowledge'
* 9: Kevin Killeen: The Politics of Painting: Pseudodoxia Epidemica
and Iconoclasm
* 10: Claire Preston: 'An Incomium of Consumptions': A Letter to a
Friend as Medical Narrative
* 11: Achsah Guibbory: Urne -Buriall, Cultural Difference, and the
Question of Jewish Readmission
* 12: Kathryn Murphy: 'A Likely Story': Plato's Timaeus in the Garden
of Cyrus
* 13: Jonathan F.S. Post: Miscellaneous Browne Among the Tombs of
Norwich Cathedral
* Part III: (After)Lives
* 14: Reid Barbour: The Hieroglyphics of Skin
* 15: Roy Rosenstein: Browne, Borges, and Back: Phantasmagories of
Imaginative Learning
* 16: Peter N. Miller: Thinking with Thomas Browne: Sebald and the
Nachleben of the Antiquarian
* Bibliography
* The Contributors
* Introduction: 'Browne at 400'
* Part I: Habits of Thought
* 1: Sharon Seelig: 'Speake that I may see thee': the styles of Sir
Thomas Browne
* 2: Debora Shuger: The Laudian Idiot
* 3: Graham Parry: Thomas Browne and the Uses of Antiquity
* 4: Brent Nelson: The Browne Family's Culture of Curiosity
* 5: Karen Edwards: Engaging with Pygmies: Thomas Browne and John
Milton
* 6: Victoria Silver: 'Wonders of the Invisible World': The Bury St.
Edmunds Witchcraft Trial Redux
* Part II: Works
* 7: Brooke Conti: Religio Medici's Profession of Faith
* 8: William N. West: Brownean Motion: Conversation within Pseudodoxia
Epidemica's 'Sober Circumference of Knowledge'
* 9: Kevin Killeen: The Politics of Painting: Pseudodoxia Epidemica
and Iconoclasm
* 10: Claire Preston: 'An Incomium of Consumptions': A Letter to a
Friend as Medical Narrative
* 11: Achsah Guibbory: Urne -Buriall, Cultural Difference, and the
Question of Jewish Readmission
* 12: Kathryn Murphy: 'A Likely Story': Plato's Timaeus in the Garden
of Cyrus
* 13: Jonathan F.S. Post: Miscellaneous Browne Among the Tombs of
Norwich Cathedral
* Part III: (After)Lives
* 14: Reid Barbour: The Hieroglyphics of Skin
* 15: Roy Rosenstein: Browne, Borges, and Back: Phantasmagories of
Imaginative Learning
* 16: Peter N. Miller: Thinking with Thomas Browne: Sebald and the
Nachleben of the Antiquarian
* Bibliography
* The Contributors
* Part I: Habits of Thought
* 1: Sharon Seelig: 'Speake that I may see thee': the styles of Sir
Thomas Browne
* 2: Debora Shuger: The Laudian Idiot
* 3: Graham Parry: Thomas Browne and the Uses of Antiquity
* 4: Brent Nelson: The Browne Family's Culture of Curiosity
* 5: Karen Edwards: Engaging with Pygmies: Thomas Browne and John
Milton
* 6: Victoria Silver: 'Wonders of the Invisible World': The Bury St.
Edmunds Witchcraft Trial Redux
* Part II: Works
* 7: Brooke Conti: Religio Medici's Profession of Faith
* 8: William N. West: Brownean Motion: Conversation within Pseudodoxia
Epidemica's 'Sober Circumference of Knowledge'
* 9: Kevin Killeen: The Politics of Painting: Pseudodoxia Epidemica
and Iconoclasm
* 10: Claire Preston: 'An Incomium of Consumptions': A Letter to a
Friend as Medical Narrative
* 11: Achsah Guibbory: Urne -Buriall, Cultural Difference, and the
Question of Jewish Readmission
* 12: Kathryn Murphy: 'A Likely Story': Plato's Timaeus in the Garden
of Cyrus
* 13: Jonathan F.S. Post: Miscellaneous Browne Among the Tombs of
Norwich Cathedral
* Part III: (After)Lives
* 14: Reid Barbour: The Hieroglyphics of Skin
* 15: Roy Rosenstein: Browne, Borges, and Back: Phantasmagories of
Imaginative Learning
* 16: Peter N. Miller: Thinking with Thomas Browne: Sebald and the
Nachleben of the Antiquarian
* Bibliography
* The Contributors