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The Prose Style of Sir Thomas Browne
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Charity and Related Principles in the Writings of Sir Francis Bacon and Sir Thomas Browne
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The Days Beyond Recall
… Early Modern scholars such as Robert Burton and Thomas Browne who utilize rhetorical paradox navigate theological and political contradictions. The essay seeks to situate Melville’s use of paradox in<em> Moby Dick</em> as a strategy to reconcile the tensions between the scientific impulse of …
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Faith and Scriptural History in Early Modern Religious Writing
… studied in this thesis—Lancelot Andrewes, Sir Thomas Browne, Henry Vaughan and John Milton—were aware that the history narrated by the Bible had the potential to be misread. Relying on historical evidence when reading scriptural accounts risked making the foundations of religious belief …
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Carving out a sense of place: The making of the Marble Valley and the Marble City of Vermont
… assert their rights. Leaders such as James Fay, Thomas Browne, and Jack Carder brought Labor's voice into a public dialogue. The elites fought back by establishing a Citizens' Party to blunt the challenge. In the 1930s a bitter strike divided the workers and management. By the 1970s the Vermont …
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Inanimating Matter: The Aesthetics of Putrefaction in Early Modern English Literature, 1580-1660
… modern writers: Edmund Spenser, John Donne, and Thomas Browne. Chapter One, ‘Spenser’s Slime: Indistinct Matter in The Faerie Queene’, studies that poem’s pervasive fascination with spontaneously generative muck, arguing that slime, mud, and mire offer the poem a powerful image of its own …
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Ghostly Sounds and Questions of Belief in Thomas Hardy and Walter de la Mare
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) and Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) share numerous reciprocal echoes in their works, especially at the height of their literary activities in the early twentieth century. Despite their singular admiration for each other and strikingly similar working methods, their mutual …