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Reid Barbour is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. With David Norbrook, he is the editor of The Works of Lucy Hutchinson: Volume One: The Lucretius Translation (OUP); and he has published widely in the field of early modern English studies. With Brooke Conti, he is the editor of the forthcoming Oxford University Press edition of The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume One, Religio Medici. He also edits Studies in Philology.
makes controversy comprehensible. Barbour aimed to show how remarkable Browne's life was; in the achievement of that aim his success is triumphant. C. D. C. Armstrong, Church Times Barbour's determination to echo Browne's openness to the full spectrum of natural phenomena...provides [His] biography with many of its strengths. It is written with great sympathy and verve and - all too rare a commodity in scholarly writing - a sense of humour. The Times Literary Supplement Browne has struggled for intellectual as distinct from literary recognition. Reid Barbour belongs to an impressive group of scholars bent on repairing the omission ... Barbour's enterprising and tenacious scholarship succeeds, against many odds, in supplying a series of rounded local contexts. Blair Worden, Literary Review Barbour's Life sets all of [Browne's] wavering reputation in meticulous context. Brian Dillon, The Guardian
