Democratizing Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici and Its ImitationsClarendon Press, 1999 - 232 pages 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. |
Contents
Religio Medici and the Restoration Virtuoso 147 | 27 |
Religio Medici and Grubstreet | 45 |
Religio Medici and Newgate | 71 |
The Resurrection of Morris W Croll | 88 |
Anatomizing Croll and Religio Medici | 104 |
Anatomizing Religio Medicis Imitations | 129 |
Searching for the Limbs of Osiris | 149 |
Suicide and Other Words in Religio Medici and | 173 |
Conclusion | 198 |
Tables of WordClasses | 205 |
Common terms and phrases
analysis anti-Ciceronian atheism baroque baroque style Blount Browne's idiom Browne's lexis Browne's prose idiom Browne's Religio Medici Browne's style Burridge Burridge's Cambridge century Christian co-ordinating conjunctions coinages context contrast correlative co-ordinators criticism Croll Croll's theories curt style DB's Discourse discussion Diss Divinity Donne doublet Dryden England English Dictionary English Language English Prose entire texts Essays example faith further Geoffrey Keynes History imitation of Religio instance interpretation John Dryden John Dunton John Tillotson Keynes Latin Literary Literature London loose style Mackenzie's Milic Morris W nature Newgate noun/of/noun obvious Oxford pairings in Religio passage plagiarism prose style Pseudodoxia Epidemica quantitative Reader reason reflections Religio Bibliopola Religio Laici Religio Libertini Religio Stoici Renaissance reveals Richard Richard Burridge Scottish Literature seems Senecan sentence seventeenth seventeenth-century prose Sir Thomas Browne Stoicism stylistic synonymy term things thought three-word patterns tion unto Whereas word-classes words writing