This volume of essays on Thomas Browne aims to set the man and his works in new contexts. Drawing on new research into his reading, readers, biography, manuscri

For many years, scholarship on Thomas Browne (1605-1682) saw him as tangential to his period’s thought and writing: an obscure and quaint stylist, detached fr

This book is about the complex ways in which science and literature are mutually-informing and mutually-sustaining. It does not cast the literary and the scient

Doctor, linguist, scientist, natural historian, and writer of what is probably the most remarkable prose in the English language, Sir Thomas Browne was a virtuo

This book presents the collectors’ roles as prominently as the collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors explore the activities and ne