Robert Burton's rhetoric : an anatomy of early modern knowledge /
"Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as academic disciplines such as medicine and rhetoric. Demonstrates how early modern practices of knowledge and persuasion can offer a model for transdisci...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.
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| Summary: | "Illustrates how Oxford scholar Robert Burton used the resources available to a seventeenth century academic: genres and languages, as well as academic disciplines such as medicine and rhetoric. Demonstrates how early modern practices of knowledge and persuasion can offer a model for transdisciplinary scholarship today"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 211 pages : illustration ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-206) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780271084671 0271084677 |