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Sir Thomas Browne
The World Proposed
Edited by Reid Barbour and Claire Preston
368 pages
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3 black-and-white halftones
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234x156mm
978-0-19-923621-3
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Hardback
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13 November 2008
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- An international line-up of both established and young scholars
- Adds to our knowledge of the period with the fruits of original archival work
- Provides an interdisciplinary approach to a wide range of seventeenth-century contexts
Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable 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.Readership: Early-modernists in English literature, comparataive literature, history, and the history of science; students and scholars of seventeenth-century literature
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Edited by Reid Barbour, Gillian T Cell Distinguished Professor of English, University of North Carolina, and Claire Preston, Fellow and Lecturer, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Contributors:
The Editors
Reid Barbour, Gillian T. Cell Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Claire Preston, Fellow and Senior Lecturer in English at Sidney Sussex College, and lecturer in the faculty of English, Cambridge University.
The Contributors
Brooke Conti, Assistant Professor of English at
the State University of New York at Brockport.
Karen L. Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature in the School of English, Exeter University.
Achsah Guibbory, Professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Kevin Killeen, Lecturer and Leverhulme post-doctoral fellow at the University of Leeds.
Peter N. Miller, Professor and Chair of Academic Programs at the Bard Graduate Center in New York.
Kathryn Murphy, Snell Scholar and doctoral student at Balliol College, Oxford
Brent Nelson, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon.
Graham Parry, Emeritus Professor of
English at the University of York, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Jonathan F. S. Post, Professor of English at UCLA.
Roy Rosenstein, Professor of Comparative Literature and English at The American University of Paris.
Sharon Cadman Seelig, Roe/Straut Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Smith College.
Debora Shuger, Professor of English at UCLA
Victoria Silver, Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.
William N. West, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University.
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"a very high standard" - Medical History
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Claire Preston and Reid Barbour: 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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