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

The Anatomy of Melancholy, first published in 1621, is one of the greatest works of early modern English prose writing, yet it has received little substantial l

This first collected discussion of Pater's significance for English literary criticism reveals his importance in shaping the principles of Modernist criticism a

The book explores the pursuit of humanitarian objectives in the face of war, exile and extreme social dislocation. Each chapter covers a pair of intellectuals a