Democratizing Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici and Its Imitations

by Daniela Havenstein

Overview

This study looks anew at one of the most popular books of the seventeenth century, Sir Thomas Brown's Religio Medici. Daniela Havenstein considers neglected seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century responses to this central work. Browne's style is reassessed in a fresh approach that combines traditional analysis with carefully developed quantitative methods.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198186267
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/16/2000
Series:	Oxford English Monographs
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	1410L (what's this?)

About the Author

Wolfson College, Oxford

Table of Contents

PrefaceReligio writing in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuryReligio Medici and the Restoration virtuosoReligio Medici and GrubstreetReligio Medici and NewgateThe resurrection of Morris W. CrollAnatomizing Croll and Religio MediciAnatomizing Religio Medici's imitationsSearching for the limbs of Osiris'Suicide' and other Words in Religio Medici and its imitationsConclusionsAppendix: Table of Word-ClassesBibliographyIndex