Sir Thomas Browne
Subtitle: the world proposed
By: edited by Reid Barbour and Claire Preston.
Contributors: Barbour, Reid.; Preston, Claire.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780199236213
Subjects: Browne, Thomas, -- Sir, -- 1605-1682 -- Criticism and interpretation; Browne, Thomas, -- Sir, -- 1605-1682 -- Influence
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-351) and index.