Browne, Thomas - Marta Straznicky (essay date September 1990)
Marta Straznicky (essay date September 1990)
SOURCE: Straznicky, Marta. “Performing the Self in Browne's Religio Medici.” Prose Studies, History, Theory, Criticism 13, no. 2 (September 1990): 211-29.
[In the following essay, Straznicky studies the strategy of self-presentation as used by Browne, contending that this duality is presented most clearly by Browne in the speaking voice of the text.]
… at my death I meane to take a totall adieu of the world, not caring for a Monument, History, or Epitaph, not so much as the bare memory of my name to be found any where but in the universall Register of God.1
To whom does this voice belong? Apart from the obvious irony that a statement renouncing worldly fame appears in print, there are several matters which may lead us to ask this question. We know the passage occurs nearly halfway through a revealing and rather intimate book named...
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