Democratizing Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici and Its Imitations

Name: Democratizing Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici and Its Imitations
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ISBN: 9780198186267

ISBN-10: 0198186266

ISBN-13: 9780198186267

Edition: 1999

Authors: Daniela Havenstein

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Criticism on Sir Thomas Browne is at present in a state of limbo. Little or no attention is paid to his once famous style, while his political attitudes have increasingly jarred with current trends in literary criticism. Democratizing Sir Thomas Browne offers a reconsideration both of Religio Medici's style and of its early reception history, especially as witnessed by a group of late-seventeenth and early eighteenth-century texts that can loosely be described as 'imitations'. The first part of the book focuses on this hitherto neglected aspect of the reception of Religio Medici, establishing and then analysing examples of imitation, plagiarism, and animadversion, with particular reference…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/16/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 244
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



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