Democratizing Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici and Its Imitations

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Clarendon 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
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About the author (1999)

Daniela Havenstein is a Junior Research Fellow in English Literature at Wolfson College, Oxford.

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