Robert Burton's rhetoric : an anatomy of early modern knowledge / Susan Wells.

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"-- Provided by publisher.