Work on Browne, post-2000

Books

Recent scholarship paying substantial attention to Browne (post-1990)

Collections of Essays

Medical, Scientific and Philosophical articles on Browne

Life, Acquaintances

Publication History and Browne’s Reading

Witchcraft

Prose and Style in Browne

Miscellaneous Studies

Pre-Twentieth Century Responses to Browne

Bibliographical Guides

Editions of Browne's Works

 

 

Work on Browne, post-2000

This section will be updated as new publications arise and, where appropriate , are duplicated in sections below.  This section is also organised by date or publication, rather than alphabetically.

• Preston, Claire, Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science (Cambridge, 2005)
• Corless-Smith, Martin, ‘That Purple Piece of Silk between Sebald and Browne, or How We Spin Our Literary Shrouds’, Denver Quarterly, (40:1), 2005, 27-39.
• Huebert, Ronald, ‘The Private Opinions of Sir Thomas Browne’, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, (45:1), 2005 Winter, 117-34.
• Achermann, Eric, ‘Ordnung im Wirbel: Knorr von Rosenroth als Kompilator und Übersetzer von Thomas Browne, Jean d'Espagnet, Henry More, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz und Antoine Le Grand’ Morgen-Glantz: Zeitschrift der Christian Knorr von Rosenroth-Gesellschaft, (13), 2003, 205-82
• Blanco, Mercedes ‘Arqueologías de Tlön: Borges y el Urn Burial de Browne’ Variaciones Borges: Journal of the Jorge Luis Borges Center for Studies and Documentation, (15), 2003, 19-46.
• Burke, Victoria E., ‘Contexts for women's manuscript miscellanies: the case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne’, Yearbook of English Studies 33 (2003), 316-28.
• Marchitello, Howard, ‘Garden frisson’, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (33:1) 2003, 143-77.
• Wong, Samuel Glen, ‘Constructing a critical subject in Religio Medici’, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (43:1) 2003, 117-36.
• Johnson, Christopher, ‘Intertextuality and translation: Borges, Browne, and Quevedo’, Translation and Literature (11:2) 2002, 174-94.
• Kitzes, Adam H., ‘Hydriotaphia, 'the sensible rhetorick of the dead'’, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (42:1) 2002, 137-54.
• Viviani, Valerio, ‘The Garden of Cyrus di Sir Thomas Browne: il giardino della mente’ in Billi, Mirella (ed.), Giardini. Viterbo: Sette Città, 2001. (pp. 163-75)
• Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning,  ‘Donne, Browne and Eschatological Vision’, Seventeenth-Century News, (58:3-4), 2000 Fall-Winter, 286-91.

Books

• Bennett, Joan, Sir Thomas Browne: A Man of Achievement in Literature (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1962)
• Dunn, William P., Sir Thomas Browne, A Study in Religious Philosophy,1926 (Minneapolis, The University of Minnesota Press, 1950, 2nd ed.)
• Finch, Jeremiah, Sir Thomas Browne: a Doctor's Life of Science and Faith (New York, Schuman, 1950)
• Gosse, Edmund, Sir Thomas Browne, (London, MacMillan, 1905)
• Green, Peter, Sir Thomas Browne (London, British Council 1959)
• Huntley, Frank Livingstone, Sir Thomas Browne: a Biographical and Critical Study (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1962)
• Hack-Molitor, Gisela, On Tiptoe in Heaven: Mystik und Reform im Werk von Sir Thomas Browne (Heidelberg, Carl Winter Universitatsverlag, 2001)
• Havenstein, Daniela, Democratizing Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici and its Imitators (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1999)
• Killeen, Kevin, The Thorny Place of Knowledge: Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica and Early Modern Intellectual Culture (Aldershot, Ashgate 2007)
• Kühn, Thomas, Sir Thomas Brownes Religio Medici und Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Eine ideengeschichtliche Untersuchung mit besonderer Berucksichtung Des Begriffs “reason” (Frankfurt am Main, P. Lang, 1989)
• Merton, Egon Stephen, Science and Imagination in Sir Thomas Browne (New York, King’s Crown Press, 1949)
• Nathanson, Leonard, The Strategy of Truth: A Study of Sir Thomas Browne (Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1967)
• Patrides, C.A. (ed.), Approaches to Sir Thomas Browne (Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1982) – See collections of essays
• Post, Jonathan, Sir Thomas Browne (Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1987)
• Preston, Claire, Thomas Browne and the Writing of Early Modern Science (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005)
• Patrides, C.A.  (ed.), Approaches to Sir Thomas Browne (University of Missouri Press, 1982)
• Sencourt, Robert, Outflying Philosophy(London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1925)
• Tildesley, Miriam M., Sir Thomas Browne: his Skull, Portraits and Ancestry (Cambridge, 1927)
• Wise, James M., Sir Thomas Browne and Two Seventeenth Century Critics (University of Missouri Press, 1973)
• Ziegler, Dewey K, In Divided and Distinguished Worlds: Religion and Rhetoric in the Writings of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, Mass., 1943)

Recent scholarship paying substantial attention to Browne

• Cotterill, Anne, Digressive voices in early modern English literature  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004
• Edwards, Karen L., Milton and the Natural World: Science and Poetry in Paradise Lost (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999)
• Guibbory, Achsah. Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton: Literature, Religion, and Cultural Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• Hall, Anne. Ceremony and Civility in English Renaissance Prose, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.
• Huntley, Frank Livingstone, Essays in Persuasion: On Seventeenth Century English Literature (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1981)
• Marchitello, Howard, Narrative and meaning in early modern England: Browne's skull and other histories (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997)
• Parry, Graham, The Trophies of Time: English Antiquarians of the Seventeenth Century (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995)
• Stock, R.D., The Holy and the Daemonic from Sir Thomas Browne to William Blake (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1982)
• Wilding, Michael, Dragons Teeth: Literature in the English Revolution (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987)

Collections of Essays

• Patrides, C.A. (ed.), Approaches to Sir Thomas Browne (Columbia, University of Missouri Press, 1982).  Includes the following essays:
• Balachandra Rajan, ‘Browne and Milton: The Divided and the Distinguished’, 1-11
• Leonard Nathanson, ‘Sir Thomas Browne and the Ethics of Knowledge’,12-18
• John R. Knott Jr, ‘Sir Thomas Browne and the Labyrinth of Truth’, 19-30
• C.A. Patrides, ‘The Best Part of Nothing: Sir Thomas Browne and the Strategy of Indirection’, 31-48
• Frank J. Warnk: ‘A Hook for Amphibium: Some Reflections on Fish’, 49-59
• J.R. Mulryne: ‘The Play of Mind: Self and Audience in Religio Medici’, 60-68
  Murray Roston, ‘The ‘Doubting’ Thomas’, 69-80
• Raymond B.Waddington, ‘The Two Tables in Relgio Medici’, 81-99
• Michael Wilding, ‘Relgio Medici in the English Revolution’, 100-114
• Philip Brockbank, ‘Browne and Paul Nash: The Genesis of Form’, 115-131
• Frank Huntley, ‘The Garden of Cyrus as Prophecy’, 132-142
• D.W. Jefferson, ‘“Pitch beyond Ubiquity” Thought and Style’ in Sir Thomas Browne’, 143-154
• Robin Robbins, ‘Browne’s Cosmos Imagined: Nature, Man and God in Pseudodoxia Epidemica’, 155-165
• Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Wandering in the America of Truth: Pseudodoxia Epidemica and the Essay Tradition’, 165-177
• Marie Boas Hall, ‘Thomas Browne,Naturalist’, 178-187
• Schoeck, R.J. (ed.) ‘Sir Thomas Browne and the Republic of Letters’ , Special Edition: English Language Notes 19:4 (1982). Includes the following essays:
• R.J Schoeck, ‘Sir Thomas Browne and the Republic of Letters: Introduction’, 299-312
• Jonathan F.S. Post, ‘Browne’s Life: A Cabinet of Rarities’, 313-334
• C.W. Schoneveld, ‘Sir Thomas Browne and Leiden University in 1633’, 335-359
• Jeremiah S. Finch, ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Library’ 360-369
• Jean-Jacques Dononain, ‘Thomas Browne and the “Respublica Litteraria” ’, 370-381
• Margaret Jones-Davies, ‘Nabuchodonosor’s Dream or The Defining of Reality in Sir Thomas Browne’s Conception of Language’, 382-401
• R.J.Schoeck, ‘O Altitudo! Sir Thomas Browne, Scriptures and the Renaissance Tradition’, 402-408
• Studies in Sir Thomas Browne ed. R.R. Cawley and G. Yost (Eugene, Oregon, 1965)

Religio Medici – see also ‘Books’ and ‘Recent scholarship’

• Bottrall, Margaret, ‘Religio Medici’ in Every Man a Phoenix:Studies in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography (1958)
• Camé, Jean-Francois, ‘Imagery in Browne’s Religio Medici’ Cahiers Elisabéthains, 18 (1980), 53-68
• Cook, Elizabeth, ‘The first Edition of Religio Medici’, Harvard library Bulletin 2 (1948) 22-31.
• Cunningham, Andrew, ‘Sir Thomas Browne and his Religio Medici: Reason, Nature and Religion’ in Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham (eds), Religio Medici, Medicine and Religion in Seventeenth Century England (Scholar Press, Aldershot, 1996)
• Endicott, N.J., ‘Some Aspects of Self-revelation and Self-Portraiture in Religio Medici’ in Millar MacLure and F.W Watt, Studies in English Literature (1964)
• Fish, Stanley, Self Consumng Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth Century Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972)
• Fish, Stanley, Seventeenth-Century Prose: Modern Essays in Criticism (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1971)
• Front, Dov, ‘Which is the first unauthorised edition of the Religio Medici?’ Book Collector (45:3) 1996, 334-40.
• Front, Dov, ‘The First Unauthorized Edition of the Religio Medici - a post-script’, Book Collector (46:2) 1997, 289
• Hall, Anne, ‘Epistle, Meditation and Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici’, PMLA 94 (1979), 234-46
• Huntley, Frank L. ‘The Publication and Immediate Reception of Religio Medici’, Library Quarterly 25 (1954) 203-18.
• Hutchinson, F.E., ‘Religio Medici’, Theology 50 (1947) 423-6.
  Low, Anthony, ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Social Abacus’, N&Q (New series) 15 (1968), 98-99
• Miller, Clarence H.,  ‘Seventeenth-century Latin translations of two English masterpieces: Hooker's Polity and Browne's Religio Medici’ in Green, Roger P. H., et al. (eds), Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Abulensis: (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000) pp. 55-72
• Mulder, John, ‘Religio Medici: Aristotle versus Moses’ in theTemple of the Mind: Education and Literary Taste in Seventeenth Century England (1969)
• Shaaber, M.A., ‘A crux in Religio Medici’, English Language Notes 3 (1966) 263-65
  Silver, Victoria, ‘Liberal Theology and Sir Thomas Browne’s “Soft and Flexible” Discourse’, English Literary Renaissance, 20 (1990) 69-105
• Webber, Joan, ‘Sir Thomas Browne: Art as Recreation’ in The Eloquent I: Style and Self in Seventeenth Century Prose (1968)
• Breiner, Laurence, ‘The Generation of Metaphor in Thomas Browne’, Modern Languages Quarterly 38 (1977) 261-275
• Wong, Samuel Glen, ‘Constructing a critical subject in Religio Medici’, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (43:1) 2003, 117-36.

Pseudodoxia Epidemica

Given the diversity of subject matter in Pseudodoxia Epidemica – particularly scientific subjects - many of the articles which bear on it make no attempt to assess the work in any broad sense and such articles are included rather in the section ‘Medical, Scientific and Philosophical articles’:

• Guibbory, Achsah,  ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica and the Circle of Knowledge’, Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 18 (1976) 486-499
• Killeen, Kevin, ‘ “Three pounds and fifteen shillings; the inconsiderable salary of Judas” – Law, history and exegesis in seventeenth century thought’. Renaissance Studies, Forthcoming
• Killeen, Kevin, ‘Duckweed and the Word of God: Seminal principles and the forms of reproduction in Thomas Browne’ in Kevin Killeen and Peter Forshaw (eds), Biblical Exegesis and the Emergence of Science in the Early Modern Era (Palgrave, 2006)
• Killeen, Kevin, The Thorny Place of Knowledge: Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica and Early Modern Intellectual Culture (Aldershot, Ashgate 2007)
• Killeen, Kevin, ‘Heroic Indifference: Duplicity and Iconoclasm in Sir Thomas Browne’ in Claire George (ed.) Heroes and Villains (Durham, 2004) pp.97-111
• Killeen, Kevin, ‘ “The doctor quarrels with some pictures”: Exegesis and animals in Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica.’ Early Science and Medicine, Forthcoming
• Preston, Claire, ‘In the Wilderness of Forms: Ideas and Things in Thomas Browne’s Cabinets of Curiosity’ in Neil Rhodes and Jonathan Sawday (eds), The Renaissance Computer: Knowledge Technology in the First Age of Print (London, Routledge, 2000)
• Preston, Claire, ‘Unriddling the world: Sir Thomas Browne and the doctrine of signatures’, Critical Survey, 5:3 (1993) 263-270
• Robbins, Robin, ‘Browne’s Cosmos Imagined: Nature, Man and God in Pseudodoxia Epidemica’ in C.A. Patrides (ed.), Approaches to Sir Thomas Browne (University of Missouri Press, 1982)

Garden of Cyrus and Urn Burial

• Davis, Walter, ‘Urne Buriall: A descent into the Underworld’, Studies in the Literary Imagination 10 (1977) 73-87
• Halley, Janet E.  ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s The Garden of Cyrus and the Real Character’ English Literary Renaissance 15 (1982)100-21
• Cline, James, ‘Hydriotaphia’ in Five Studies in Literature, University of California Publications in English 8 (1940) 73-100
• Finch, Jeremiah, ‘Early Drafts of The Garden of Cyrus’, PMLA 55 (1940) 742-7
• Finch, Jeremiah, ‘Sir Thomas Browne and the Quincunx’ Studies in Philology 37 (1940) 274082
• Heideman, Margaret, ‘Hydriotaphia and The Garden of Cyrus: A Paradox and a Cosmic Vision’, University of Toronto Quarterly, 19 (1950) 235-46
• Huntley, Frank: ‘Sir Thomas Browne: The Relationship o the Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus’, Studies in Philology 53 (1956) 204-19
• Kitzes, Adam H., ‘Hydriotaphia, 'the sensible rhetorick of the dead'’, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 (42:1) 2002, 137-54.
• Mackenzie, Norman, ‘Sir Thomas Browne as a Man of Learning: A Discussion of Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus’, English Studies in Africa 10 (1967) 67-86
• Mackenzie, Norman, ‘The Concept of Baroque and its Relation to Sir Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici and Urn Burial’, English Studies in Africa 10 (1967) 147-66
• Pande, R.P, Sir Thomas Browne, with a detailed study and text of ‘Urn Burial’, (Allahabad, 1963)
• Parket, Edward, ‘The Cursus in Sir Thomas Browne’ PMLA 53 (1938) 1037-53
• Parry, Graham, ‘In the Land of Moles and pismires: Thomas Browne’s Antiquarian Writings’ in Neil Rhodes (ed.), English Renaissance Prose: History, Language and Politics (Tempe, Arizona State University, 1997)
• Singer, Thomas C., ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s “Emphaticall decussation or fundamental figure”: Geometrical Hieroglyphs and The Garden of Cyrus’, English Literary Renaissance, 17 (1987) 85-102
• Stanford, Michael ‘The Terrible Threshold: Sir Thomas Browne on Sex and Death’, English Literary Renaissance, 18 (1988) 413-423.
• Viviani, Valerio, ‘The Garden of Cyrus di Sir Thomas Browne: il giardino della mente’ in Billi, Mirella (ed.), Giardini. Viterbo: Sette Città, 2001. (pp. 163-75)
• Williamson,George, ‘The Purple of Urn Burial’, Modern Philology 62 (1964), 110-17

A Letter to a Friend and Christian Morals

• Currie, H. MacL. "Notes on Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals." Notes and Queries 5 (1958): 143.
• Endicott, N.J., ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Letter to a Friend’, University of Toronto Quarterly, 36 (1966) 68-86
• Huntley, Frank, ‘The Occasion and Date of Sir Thomas Browne’s Letter to a Friend’, Modern Philology 47 (1951) 157-71
• Keynes, Geoffrey. "Browne's 'Letter to a Friend' " Times Literary Supplement, 19 November 1938, p. 748.

Medical, Scientific and Philosophical articles on Browne

• Ashworth, William B., ‘Natural History and the Emblematic World View’ in David C. Lindberg and Robert S. Westman (eds), Reappraisals of the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp.303-331
• Chalmers, Gordon, ‘Sir Thomas Browne, True Scientist’ Osiris, 2 (1936) 28-79
  Chalmers, Gordon, "'That Universal and Publick Manuscript'." Virginia Quarterly Review 26:3 (1950): 414-30.
• Chamblers, Gordon, ‘Hieroglyphs and Sir Thomas Browne’, Virginia Quarterly Review, 11 (1935) 547-60
• Dunn, Peter W. "Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) and Life before Birth." Archives of Disease in Childhood 70, no. 1 (January 1994): f.75.
• Howell, Almonte C., ‘Sir Thomas Browne and Seventeenth Century Scientific Thought’, Studies in Philology, 20 (1925) 61-80
• Howell, A. C. "A Doctor Looks at Religion." University of North Carolina Extension Bulletin 34, no. 2 (November 1954): 45-69.
• Huntley, Frank, ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Leyden Thesis’ TLS 8 May 1953, p.301
• Huntley, Frank, ‘Sir Thomas Browne, M.D., William Harvey and the Metaphor of the Circle’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 25 (1951) 236-47
• Huntley, Frank L. "Sir Thomas Browne and the Metaphor of the Circle." Journal of the History of Ideas 14 (1953): 353-64.
• Killeen, Kevin, ‘Duckweed and the Word of God: Seminal principles and the forms of reproduction in Thomas Browne’ in Kevin Killeen and Peter Forshaw (eds), Biblical Exegesis and the Emergence of Science in the Early Modern Era (Palgrave, 2006)
• Killeen, Kevin, ‘ “The doctor quarrels with some pictures”: Exegesis and animals in Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica.’ Early Science and Medicine, Forthcoming
• King, James Roy, ‘Sir Thomas Browne: Scientific Data and Mystical Experience’ in Sixteenth-Century Writers (Athens, Ohio, 1966)
• Löffler, Arno, ‘The Problem of Memoria and Virtuoso Sensibility in Sir Thomas Browne's The Garden of Cyrus’, Erfurt Electronic Studies in English (1997:1)
• Löffler, Arno, Sir Thomas Browne als Virtuoso: Bie Bedeutung der Gelehrsamkeit für sein literarisches Alterswerk (Nuremberg, 1972)
  Loiseau, J, ‘Sir Thomas Browne écrivain ‘métaphysique’’, Revue anglo-américan, 10 (1933), 358-98
• Luyendijk-Elshout, A.M., ‘Thomas Browne and the study of Anatomy at Leiden’ in Sir Thomas Browne M.D. and the Anatomy of Man (Leiden, Brill, 1982)
• Martens, P. "The Faiths of Two Doctors: Thomas Browne and William Osler." Perspectives on Biological Medicine 36, no. 1 (Autumn, 1992): 120-28.
• Mermann, A. C. "Metaphysics for the Physician: The Legacy of Sir Thomas Browne." Humane Medicine 11, no. 3 (August 1995): 114
• Merton, Egon Stephen, ‘Old and New Physiology in Sir Thomas Browne: Digestion and Some Other Functions’, Isis, 57 (1966) 249-59
• Merton, Egon Stephen, ‘Sir Thomas Browne as Zoologist’, Osiris, 9 (1950)
• Merton, Egon Stephen, ‘Sir Thomas Browne on Astronomy’, History of Ideas News Letter, 5 (1958) 83-6
• Merton, Egon Stephen, ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Embryological Theory’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 5 (1950) 416-21
• Merton, Egon Stephen, ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Interpretation of Dreams’, Philological Quarterly, 28 (1949) 497-503
• Merton, Egon Stephen, ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Scientific Quest’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 3 (1948) 214-28
• Merton, Egon Stephen, ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s Theories of Respiration and Combustion’, Osiris, 10 (1952) 206-23
• Merton, Egon Stephen, ‘The Botany of Sir Thomas Browne’, Isis, 47 (1956) 161-71
• Merton, Egon Stephen, Science and Imagination in Sir Thomas Browne (New York, King’s Crown Press, 1949)
• Needham, Joseph, ‘Sir Thomas Browne and the Beginning of Chemical Embryology’ in A History of Embryology (Cambridge, 1934), pp.110-12
• Singer, Thomas C., ‘Hieroglyphs, Real Characters and the Idea of a Natural Language in English Seventeenth-Century Thought’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 50 (1989) 49-70
• Yost, George, ‘Sir Thomas Browne and Aristotle’, in Studies in Sir Thomas Browne ed. R.R. Cawley and G. Yost (Eugene, Oregon, 1965) pp. 104-66

Life, Acquaintances

• Ashton, Arthur J. "Sir Thomas Browne en famille." English Review 43 (December 1926): 693-707.
• Dutt, William, ‘Sir Thomas Browne and Bishop Hall’ in Some Literary Associations of East Anglia (1907)
• Cody, David. "Invited Guests at Hawthorne's 'Christmas Banquet': Sir Thomas Browne and Jeremy Taylor." Modern Language Studies 11, no. 1 (1980-81): 17-26.
• Colie, Rosalie L. "Sir Thomas Browne's 'Entertainment' in XVIIth Century Holland." Neophilologus 36 (1952): 162-71.
• de Beer, E. S. "The Correspondence between Sir Thomas Browne and John Evelyn." Library 19 (1938): 103-06.
• Harper, George McLean. ‘The Family Correspondence of Sir Thomas Browne’, Literary Appreciations (Indianapolis 1937) 46-69.
• Walcott, Mackenzie. "Coincidences between Sir Thomas Browne and Bishop Ken." Notes and Queries 9 (11 March 1854): 220
• Hughes, Trevor, ‘The Childhood of Sir Thomas Browne: His relationship to his mother and stepfather’ London Journal, 23 (1998) 21-29
• Tonybee, Margaret, ‘Some Friends of Sir Thomas Browne’, Norfolk Archaeology, 31 (1957) 377-94

Bibliographical Guides

There are a number of excellent bibliographies of Browne scholarship for material published up till the 1970s:

• Donovan, Dennis G. "Recent Studies in Browne." English Literary Renaissance 2:2 (1972): 271-79.
• Donovan, Dennis G., Magaretha G. Hartley Herman, and Ann E. Imbrie. Sir Thomas Browne and Robert Burton: A Reference Guide. A Reference Guide to Literature. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1991.
• Keynes, Geoffrey. A Bibliography of Sir Thomas Browne. Oxford: 1968.
• Patrides, C.A. (ed.), Sir Thomas Browne: The Major Works (Penguin, 1977)
   See also the online bibliography compiled by William S. Peterson

Publication History and Browne’s Reading

Most essential in this regard is Finch, Jeremiah (ed.), Facsimile of A Catalogue of the Libraries of the Learned Sir Thomas Brown and Dr Edward Brown his Son (London 1710, facsimile, 1986)

• Cawley, Robert Royston, ‘Sir Thomas Browne and His Reading’, PMLA, 48 (1933) 426-70
• Daniels, Edgar F. "Browne's 'To the Deceased Author'." Explicator 46, no. 2 (Winter, 1988): 19-20.
• Finch, J. S. "A Newly Discovered Urn Burial." Library 19 (1938): 347-53.
• Finch, Jeremiah S. "Sir Thomas Browne: Early Biographical Notices, and the Disposition of His Library and Manuscripts." Studies in Bibliography 2 (1949): 196-201.
• Finch, Jeremiah S. "Sir Thomas Browne's Library." English Language Notes 19 (June 1982): 360-70.
• Finch, Jeremiah S. "The Norfolk Persuaders of Sir Thomas Browne: A Variant Copy of the 1712 Posthumous Works." PrincetonUniversity Library Chronicle 11, no. 4 (Summer, 1950): 199-201.
• Huntley, Frank L. "The Publication and Immediate Reception of Religio Medici." Library 25, no. 3 (July 1955): 203-18.
• Letts, M ‘Sir Thomas Browne and is Books’, N&Q,, 11th Series 10 (1914) 321-3, 342-4, 361-2
• Monro, T. K. "An Unpublished Letter of Sir Thomas Browne, M.D." Scottish Historical Review 19, no. 73 (October 1921): 49-57.
• Moschowitz, Eli. "The First Editions of Sir Thomas Browne." Annals of Medical History 6 (Winter, 1924): 363-68.
• Richmond, Gary. "Sir Thomas Browne's Library [Part 1]." Antiquarian Book Monthly Review 4, no. 1 (January 1977): 2-9.
• Richmond, Gary. "Sir Thomas Browne's Library [Part 2]." Antiquarian Book Monthly Review 4, no. 2 (February 1977): 52-54.
• Weaver, Raymond H. "Sir Thomas Browne." Bookman 48 (October 1918): 174-81.
  Juel-Jensen, Bent. ‘Musæum Clausum, or bibliotheca Abscondita: Some Thoughts on Curiosity Cabinets and Imaginary Books’, Journal of the History of Collecting 4 (1992) 127-40
• Moran, Berna, ‘Sir Thomas Browne’s reading on the Turks’, N&Q 197 (1952), 380-82, 403-06

Witchcraft

• Reid, Forrest. "Sir Thomas Browne and a Trial of Witches." Westminster Review 175 (February 1911): 197-202.
• Reid, Forrest. "Sir Thomas Browne and the Witch-Trials: A Vindication." Lancet 182 (20 January 1912): 185.
• Malcolm Lettes, ‘Sir Thomas Browne and Witchcraft’, N&Q 11th Series V (1912) 221-3
• Dorothy Tyler, ‘A Review of the Interpretation of Sir Thomas Browne’s Part in a Witch Trial in 1664’, Anglia, LIV (1930) 179-95

Prose and Style in Browne

• Anderton, Basil, Sketches from a Library Window (Cambridge, 1922)
• Bischoff, Dietrich, Sir Thomas Browne als Stilkünstler: Ein Beitrag zur Deutung der englishchen Barockliterature (Heidelberg, 1943)
• Moloney, Micchael, ‘Metres and Cursus in Sir Thomas Browne’s Prose’, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 58 (1959) 60-67
• Morgan, Edward, ‘Strong Lines and Strong Minds: Reflections on the Prose of Browne and Johnson’, Cambridge Journal 4 (1951) 481-91
• Croll, Morris, Style, Rhetoric and Rhythm (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1966)
• Havenstein, Daniela, Democratizing Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici and its Imitators (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1999)
• Crombie, Winifred. "Two Faces of Seneca: Metaphysical and Baroque Prose Styles in the Seventeenth Century." Language and Style 19:1 (Winter, 1986): 26-48.
• Phelps, Gilbert, ‘The Prose of Donne and Browne, in A guide to English Literature: From Donne to Marvell, ed. Boris Ford (1956) pp.116-30
• Stapleton, Laurence, ‘Sir Thomas Browne and Meditative Prose’, in The Elected Circle Studies in the Art of Prose (Princeton, 1973)
• Tempest, Norton, ‘Rhythm in the Prose of Sir Thomas Browne’, Review of English Studies 3 (1927) 308-18
• Warren, Austin, ‘The Style of Sir Thomas Browne’, Kenyon Review, 13 (1951) 674-87
• Whallon, William. "Hebraic Synonymy in Sir Thomas Browne.", English Literary History 28 (1961): 335-52.

Miscellaneous Studies

• Osler, Sir William ‘Sir Thomas Browne’, An Alabama Student and Other Biographical Essays (Oxford, 1908) pp.248-77
• Wiley, Margaret L. "Sir Thomas Browne and the Genesis of Paradox." Journal of the History of Ideas 9, no. 3 (June 1948): 303-22.
• Williams, Arnold. "Commentaries on Genesis as a Basis for Hexaemeral Material in the Literature of the Late Renaissance." Studies in Philology 34 (1937): 191-208.
• Cowles, Thomas, ‘Dr Henry Power, Disciple of Sir Thomas Browne’, ISIS 20 (1933-34) 345-66
• De Beer, E.S., ‘The Correspondence between Sir Thomas Bowne and John Evelyn’, Library 19, 4th Series (1938-9) 103-6
• Löffler, Arno, ‘Sir Thomas Browne als Redaktor von Edward Brownes Travels’, Anglia 88 (1970), 337-40
• Löffler, A., ‘Sir Thomas Brownes fiktives Raritätenkabinett Musaeum Clausum: eine Studie zur Mentalität des gelehrten Sammlers im 17. Jahrhundert’, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen (234:2) 1997, 276-92.
• Pennel, Charles, ‘The Learned Sir Thomas Browne: Some Seventeenth-Century Viewpoints’, Kansas Magazine (1965), 82-86
• Wagley, Mary and Philip, ‘Comments on Johnson’s Biography of Sir Thomas Browne, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 31 (1957) 318-26
• Datta, Kitty Scoular, ‘Sir Thomas Browne and Vox Norwici’, Notes and Queries, 231 (1986)
• Smith, Nigel, ‘Thomas Browne and the Levellers’, Notes and Queries, 1983 (Dec) 33 (231) 4, p.461
• Dowden, Edward. Puritan and Anglican: Studies in Literature. London: 1901.
• Ryan, John Kenneth. "The Reputation of St. Thomas Aquinas among English Protestant Thinkers of the Seventeenth Century." New Scholasticism 22 (1948): 1-33, 126-208.
• C.W. Schoneveld,  “The True Anatomy of Myselfe“, in Sir Thomas Browne and the Anatomy of Man, ed. J.A. van Dorsten, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1982, pp.5-9
• C.W. Schoneveld, “One Book: Sir Thomas Browne‘s Religio Medici in Holland“ in, Intertraf­fic of the Mind: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Dutch Translation, with a Checklist of Books Translated from English into Dutch, 1600-1700, Publications of the Sir Thomas Browne Insti­tute, New Series no. 3, Leiden University Press/E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1983, chapter I, pp. 1-28.
• C.W. Schoneveld, “Sir Thomas Browne and Leiden University in 1633", English Lan­guage Notes, Special Issue: “Sir Thomas Browne and the Republic of Letters“, ed. R.J. Schoeck, 19 (1982), 335-59; republished (with added illustrations) in C.W. Schoneveld,  Sea-Changes: Studies in Three Centuries of Anglo-Dutch Cultural Transmission, Rodopi, Amsterdam/Atlanta, 1996, chapter I, pp.1-33.
• In the press: Sir Thomas Browne, De Godsdienst van een Geneesheer, [Translation of Religio Medici from English into Dutch by C.W. Schoneveld, bilingual edition, with introduction and notes in Dutch].
• Strachey, Lytton, 'Sir Thomas Browne', in his Books and Characters French and English (London: Chatto & Windus, 1929), pp. 27-38.
• Carter, John, 'Sir Thomas Browne's Autograph Corrections', The Library, Series 4, 19 (1939), 492-93.
• Westfall, T. M., 'Sir Thomas Browne's revision of Pseudodoxia Epidemica, a study in the development of his mind' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Princeton University, 1939).
• Anon., 'The Tercentenary of Sir Thomas Browne', British Medical Journal, 2 (1905), 1121-25
• !!!! Potter, Harry. "Unburying Dr Browne." Expository Times 100 (1989): 258-63.

Selected Pre-Twentieth Century Responses to Browne

• Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, Quarterly Essays (1875) 137-75
  Coleridge,  Samuel Taylor. Coleridge on the Seventeenth Century. Ed. Roberta
• Florence Brinkley. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1955.
• Digby, Sir Kenelm, Observations upon Religio Medici. London, 1643.
• De Quincey, Thomas, De Quincey’s Literary Criticism, ed. Helen Darbishire (1909)
• Hazlitt, William, Lectures Chiefly on the Dramatic Literature of the age of Elizabeth (1820), pp.292-306
• Jonson, Samuel, Life of Browne (1756) in Patrides (ed.) Works of Sir Thomas Browne (Penguin)
• Keck, John, Annotations Upon Religio Medici (1654)
• Pater, Walter, ‘Sir Thomas Browne’, Appreciations (1889) pp.127-66
• Ross, Alexander, Arcana Microcosmi … with a Refutation a Doctor Browne’s Vulgar Errors (London, 1652)
• Ross, Alexander, Medicus Medicatus (London, 1645)
  Wood, Anthony, Life of Browne (1692)

Editions of Browne's Works

There are many editions of Browne’s works.  The standard editions are:

• The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, ed. Geoffrey Keynes, 4 Vols. (Faber and Faber, London, 1964)
• Pseudodoxia Epidemica, ed. Robin Robbins, 2 Vols. (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1981)
• Sir Thomas Browne: The Major Works, ed. C.A. Patrides (London, Penguin, 1977)
• Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and The Garden of Cyrus. Ed. Robin H. Robbins (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972)
• Works, ed. Simon Wilkin, 4 Vols. (London, 1835-36).
• Religio Medici, ed. James Winny (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963)
• Religio Medici, And Other Works, ed. L. C. Martin (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964)
  Urne Buriall, and The Garden of Cyrus, ed. John Carter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1958)
• The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, ed. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, 6 vols. (London, Faber, 1928-31)