Interests and Information
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
Intellectual History
Classical Transmission
History of Science
History of Religion
Sir Thomas Browne
Lucy Hutchinson
Gillian T. Cell Distinguished Professor of English (Hire Date: 1988)
Ph. D., University of Rochester, 1988
M.A., University of Rochester, 1984
B.A., UNC Chapel Hill, 1982
rbarbour@email.unc.edu
(919) 962-0773
Reid Barbour
Reid Barbour's most recent book is John Selden: Measures of the Holy Commonwealth in Seventeenth-Century England (U of Toronto Press, 2003) . He is also the author of Literature and Religious Culture in Seventeenth-Century England, from Cambridge Univ Press, English Epicures and Stoics: Ancient Legacies in Early Stuart Culture (University of Massachusetts Press 1998) and Deciphering Elizabethan Fiction (1993).
Among other projects, including an intellectual biography of Sir Thomas Browne, he is editing Lucy Hutchinson's translation of Lucretius as one of the four volumes in the Oxford edition of her works. Dr. Barbour is co-editor with Claire Preston of a collection of essays published this November from Oxford entitled Sir Thomas Browne: The World Proposed.