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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wells, Susan, 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
Series:RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric.
Subjects:
Burton, Robert, > 1577-1640 > Knowledge and learning.
Burton, Robert, > 1577-1640. > Anatomy of melancholy.
Rhetoric.
Burton, Robert, > 1577-1640.
Anatomy of melancholy (Burton, Robert)
Learning and scholarship.
Table of Contents:
  • A monstrous anatomy
  • Burton's anatomy : genres as species and spaces
  • The Anatomy of melancholy and early modern medicine
  • Burton, rhetoric, and the shapes of thought
  • Translingualism : the philologist as language broker
  • The Anatomy of melancholy and transdisciplinary rhetoric.