Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction
Notes on Text and Annotation
Religio Medici (1643)
Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646)
Hydriotaphia or Urn-Burial (1658)
The Garden of Cyrus (1658)
Certain Miscellany Tracts (1683)
Letter to a Friend (1690)
Christian Morals (1716)
Notes
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).
Killeen's edition is a heartily welcome single-volume Browne that
gives us a generous vista of this most expansive writer. Its very
generous annotations, in particular, will help introduce new
readers and clarify his complex subtleties for specialists.
*Claire Preston, Queen Mary University of London*
Kevin Killeen's superb one-volume edition of Thomas Browne's major
works provides students, scholars, and instructors with clear,
lightly modernized texts and generous supporting glosses that
enable and enrich access to the author's original voice, ideas, and
learning without ever overwhelming or overburdening the reader.
Killeen's literary and biographical introductions amply prepare us
for the complex interplay between forms and genres exhibited
throughout Browne's writings, and for the remarkable conjunction of
natural philosophy, religion, antiquarianism, and classical
scholarship represented by the author himself.
*Matthew Woodcock, University of East Anglia*
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.
*Brent Nelson, University of Saskatchewan*
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