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Sir Thomas Browne: A Life
Reid Barbour
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Description for Sir Thomas Browne: A Life
Paperback. Reid Barbour brings the historical evidence of Browne's life together for the first time, allowing readers to contextualise his most celebrated works. Num Pages: 552 pages, 20 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: BGL; DSBD; HBLH. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Sir Thomas Browne: A Life is the first full-scale biography of the extraordinary prose artist, physician, and polymath. With the help of recent archival discoveries, the biography recasts each phase of Browne's life (1605-82) and situates his incomparable writings within the diverse intellectual and social contexts in which he lived, including London, Winchester, Oxford, Montpellier, Padua, Leiden, Halifax, and Norwich. The book makes the case that, as his contemporaries fervently believed, Browne influenced the intellectual and religious direction of seventeenth-century England in singularly rich and dynamic ways. Special attention is paid in the biography to Browne's medical ... Read more
Sir Thomas Browne: A Life is the first full-scale biography of the extraordinary prose artist, physician, and polymath. With the help of recent archival discoveries, the biography recasts each phase of Browne's life (1605-82) and situates his incomparable writings within the diverse intellectual and social contexts in which he lived, including London, Winchester, Oxford, Montpellier, Padua, Leiden, Halifax, and Norwich. The book makes the case that, as his contemporaries fervently believed, Browne influenced the intellectual and religious direction of seventeenth-century England in singularly rich and dynamic ways. Special attention is paid in the biography to Browne's medical ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
822g
Number of Pages
550
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198778356
SKU
V9780198778356
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Ref
99-1
About Reid Barbour
Reid Barbour is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. With David Norbrook, he is the editor of The Works of Lucy Hutchinson: Volume One: The Lucretius Translation (OUP); and he has published widely in the field of early modern English studies. With Brooke Conti, he is the editor of the forthcoming Oxford University Press edition ... Read more
Reviews for Sir Thomas Browne: A Life
Barbours piquant recounting of Brownes time at Winchester are an enticing hors doeuvre to his life story, and will have you rolling in clover at the richness of the text...This biography is a gargantuan medical-biopic of War and Peace dimensions, where to travel is more enjoyable than arriving.
Jim Young, Glycosmedia
Jim Young, Glycosmedia