Robert Burton's rhetoric : an anatomy of early modern knowledge /
Wells, Susan, 1947-
Robert Burton's rhetoric : an anatomy of early modern knowledge / Susan Wells. - University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. - xii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric . - 808 (NLA) .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-206) and index.
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.
"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"--
9780271084671
Burton, Robert, 1577-1640 --Knowledge and learning
Burton, Robert, 1577-1640 Anatomy of melancholy
Rhetoric
808 (NLA)
Robert Burton's rhetoric : an anatomy of early modern knowledge / Susan Wells. - University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019. - xii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric . - 808 (NLA) .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-206) and index.
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.
"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"--
9780271084671
Burton, Robert, 1577-1640 --Knowledge and learning
Burton, Robert, 1577-1640 Anatomy of melancholy
Rhetoric
808 (NLA)