Punctual Relations: Thomas Browne's Rhetorical Reclamations.

This essay situates Thomas Browne's late Musaeum Clausum, a fictive encycopedic catalogue or spoof catalogue, within the early modern culture of collecting. I argue that repeated rhetorical figures and effects in this text enforce a theme of absence, irrecoverability, and anonymity, and I suggest th...

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Published in:	Studies in Philology Vol. 115; no. 3; pp. 598 - 615
Main Author:	Preston, Claire
Format:	Article
Published:	University of North Carolina Press Summer2018
Subjects:	Rhetoric Authorship Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682 17th century collectors & collecting Ekphrasis Anonymity
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