Thomas Browne - 21st-Century Oxford Authors

A comprehensive selection of the work of the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne, this edition includes extracts from Browne's personal notebooks and correspondence, as well as his scientific writings.

About the author

Kevin Killeen is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of York. He has written extensively on Thomas Browne and the intellectual culture of the seventeenth century, as well as the history of science and religion. He writes also on the politics of early modern England and its use of the Bible in thinking about political questions. Among his books is the prize winning Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern Culture: Thomas Browne and The Thorny Place of Knowledge (2009).

Summary

A comprehensive selection of the work of the seventeenth-century polymath Sir Thomas Browne, this edition includes extracts from Browne's personal notebooks and correspondence, as well as his scientific writings.

Additional text

Kevin Killeen offers a generous selection of freshly edited texts richly contextualized in their bibliographical and cultural context. Teachers and scholars of Browne will welcome this much needed one-volume edition of this important seventeenth-century savant.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Killeen, Kevin (Lecturer in Renaissance Literature Killeen
• Assisted by: Kevin Killeen (Editor), Killeen Kevin (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9780199640430
• ISBN: 978-0-19-964043-0
• No. of pages: 1042
• Series: 21st Century Oxford Authors; 21st Century Oxford Authors; 21st-Century Oxford Authors
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Prose: non-fiction, English, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literary studies: general, Biography and non-fiction prose, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form