CRITICISM

Camé, Jean-Francois. “Imagery in Browne's Religio Medici.” Cahiers Elisabethains 18 (October 1980): 53-68.

Highlights Browne's use of the trope, or metaphor, in Religio Medici.

Davis, Walter R. “Urne Buriall: A Descent into the Underworld.” Studies in Literary Imagination 10, no. 2 (fall 1977): 73-87.

Examines Urne Buriall as a metaphorical text of discovery and journey.

Erwin, Mark T. “Hyroglyphs of Revelation: Thomas Browne and Thomas Pynchon.” Pynchon Notes 22-23 (spring-fall 1988): 47-56.

Offers an overview of the affinity between the religious and scientific ideas of Browne and Pynchon and how they used these in their writing.

Front, Dov. “Which Is the First Unauthorised Edition of the Religio Medici?” Book Collector 45, no. 3 (autumn 1996): 334-40.

Explores the controversy surrounding the publication of Browne's Religio Medici.

Grundy, Dominick. “Skepticism in Two Essays by Montaigne and Sir Thomas Browne.” Journal of the History of Ideas 34, no. 4 (October-December 1973): 529-42.

Focuses on the use of skepticism in the writings of Michel de Montaigne and Thomas Browne.

Guibbory, Achsah. “Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica and the Circle of Knowledge.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 18, no. 3 (fall 1976): 486-99.

Studies Browne's use of the figure of the circle in his work, especially the Pseudodoxia Epidemica.

Miller, Edmund. “The Browne Doublet: Religio Medici in the History of English Prose.” Bulletin of Research in the Humanities 82, no. 2 (summer 1979): 213-21.

Studies Browne's prose style, especially his use of the doublet, (the combination of two words where one might have sufficed) in his prose works, focusing on the Religio Medici.

Parry, Graham. “In the Land of Moles and Pismires: Thomas Browne's Antiquarian Writings.” In English Renaissance Prose: History, Language, and Politics, edited by Neil Rhodes, pp. 247-58. Tempe, Ariz.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1997.

Offers an evaluation of Browne's Hydriotaphia: Urn Burial in the context of his antiquarian studies and knowledge.

Preston, Claire. “In the Wilderness of Forms: Ideas and Things in Thomas Browne's Cabinets of Curiosity.” In The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print, edited by Neil Rhodes and Jonathan Sawday, pp. 170-83. London: Routledge, 2000.

Traces similarities between the methodology of early modern science and antiquarianism and modern electronic search operations, then focuses on Browne's works as prime examples of the way in which seventeenth-century writers and thinkers organized knowledge.

Schoeck, R. J. “Sir Thomas Browne and the Republic of Letters.” English Language Notes 19, no. 4 (June 1982): 299-312.

Defines the modern notion of the republic of letters, and places Browne in this context.

Seelig, Sharon Cadman. “Sir Thomas Browne and Stanley Fish: A Case of Malpractice.” Prose Studies 11, no. 2 (September 1988): 72-84.

Counters Fish's argument that Browne is a “bad physician.”

Stanford, Michael. “The Terrible Thresholds: Sir Thomas Browne on Sex and Death.” English Literary Renaissance 18, no. 3 (autumn 1988): 413-23.

Argues that despite Stanley Fish's dismissal of Browne as a serious author, there are reasons why Browne approached the writing of the Religio Medici in the way he did.

Stephens, Cynthia. “Borges and Sir Thomas Browne and the Theme of Metempsychosis.” Forum for Modern Language Studies 28, no. 3 (July 1992): 268-79.

Investigates Browne's influence on the work of Borges, especially focusing on the themes of metempsychosis and immortality.

Additional coverage of Browne's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: British Writers, Vol. 2; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 151; and Literature Resource Center.