Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 7
List of Illustrations......Page 10
List of Abbreviations......Page 12
Introduction: ‘Many Things Untouch’d’: Browne at 400......Page 14
PART I: HABITS OF THOUGHT......Page 24
1. ‘Speake that I may see thee’: The Styles of Sir Thomas Browne......Page 26
2. The Laudian Idiot......Page 49
3. Thomas Browne and the Uses of Antiquity......Page 76
4. The Browne Family’s Culture of Curiosity......Page 93
5. Engaging with Pygmies: Thomas Browne and John Milton......Page 113
6. ‘Wonders of the Invisible World’: The Trial of the Lowestoft Witches......Page 131
PART II: WORKS......Page 160
7. Religio Medici’s Profession of Faith......Page 162
8. Brownean Motion: Conversation within Pseudodoxia Epidemica’s ‘Sober Circumference of Knowledge’......Page 181
9. The Politics of Painting: Pseudodoxia Epidemica and Iconoclasm......Page 201
10. ‘An Incomium of Consumptions’: A Letter to a Friend as Medical Narrative......Page 219
11. Urne-Buriall, Cultural Difference, and the Question of Jewish Readmission......Page 235
12. ‘A Likely Story’: Plato’s Timaeus in the Garden of Cyrus......Page 255
13. Miscellaneous Browne among the Tombs of Norwich Cathedral......Page 271
PART III: LIFE AND AFTERLIVES......Page 290
14. The Hieroglyphics of Skin......Page 292
15. Browne, Borges, and Back: Phantasmagories of Imaginative Learning......Page 309
16. Thinking with Thomas Browne: Sebald and the Nachleben of the Antiquarian......Page 324
Bibliography......Page 342
The Editors and Contributors......Page 365
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