Democratizing Sir Thomas Browne : Religio Medici and its imitations
This study offers a reconsideration both of the style of "Religio Medici" and of its early reception history, especially as witnessed by a group of late-17th and early 18th-century texts that can loosely be described as "imitations".
Print Book, English, 1999
Clarendon Press Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York (N.Y.), 1999
VIII, 232 p. 23 cm
9780198186267, 0198186266
1014528555
Preface ; Religio writing in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century ; Religio Medici and the Restoration virtuoso ; Religio Medici and Grubstreet ; Religio Medici and Newgate ; The resurrection of Morris W. Croll ; Anatomizing Croll and Religio Medici ; Anatomizing Religio Medici's imitations ; Searching for the limbs of Osiris ; 'Suicide' and other Words in Religio Medici and its imitations ; Conclusions ; Appendix: Table of Word-Classes ; Bibliography ; Index