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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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* 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
* 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
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