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By Reid Barbour,Claire Preston
Browne magnificently figures forth.
This choice of essays approximately all facets of Thomas Browne's paintings and idea is the 1st such quantity to seem in 25 years. It deals the professional and the scholar a wide-ranging array of essays by way of a world group of prime students in seventeenth-century literary experiences who expand our knowing of this super influential and consultant early-modern polymath through embracing contemporary advancements within the box, together with literary-scientific kin, the advance of
Anglican spirituality, civil networks of highbrow trade, the increase of antiquarianism, and Browne's personal legacy in glossy literature.
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