Wells, Susan,  1947- <br/><br/>
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) .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-206) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780271084671 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Burton, Robert, 1577-1640 --Knowledge and learning<br/>Burton, Robert, 1577-1640  Anatomy of melancholy 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rhetoric
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>808 (NLA)