| "A Man Very Well Studyed" New Contexts for Thomas Browne Contributor(s): Todd (Editor), Murphy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004171738 ISBN-13: 9789004171732 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: This volume of essays on Thomas Browne aims to set the man and his works in new contexts. Drawing on new research into his reading, readers, biography, manuscripts, and politics, a new picture of Browne and his writing emerges, clarifying his relationship to seventeenth-century English and European culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Literary Criticism | Shakespeare - Literary Criticism | Renaissance |
| Dewey: 828.409 |
| LCCN: 2008034670 |
| Series: Intersections |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.4" W x 9.5" (1.50 lbs) 314 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For many years, scholarship on Thomas Browne (1605-1682) saw him as tangential to his period's thought and writing: an obscure and quaint stylist, detached from the turbulence of mid-seventeenth century England. This volume contributes to the current reevalution of Browne's involvement in his times: identifying his political commitments, milieu, reading, and readers. The essays collected in this volume place Browne's works in unexpected contexts - in Holland, Poland and Germany, in Restoration politics, in publishing history and medical theory. It presents new research into his reputation in the later seventeenth century, his manuscripts, medical dissertation, association with the Hartlib circle and habits of revision. Essays on familiar works place them in new light, while readings of his letters, notebooks, and lesser works broaden our understanding of Browne as a writer. The result is a fuller picture of Browne's significance in seventeenth-century European culture. Contributors include: Eric Achermann, Hugh Adlington, Reid Barbour, Harm Beukers, Siobh n Collins, Louise Denmead, Karen Edwards, Doris Einsiedel, Kevin Killeen, Mary Ann Lund, Philip Major, Antonia Moon, Kathryn Murphy, Brent Nelson, and Claire Preston. |