TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wells,Susan
TI  - Robert Burton's rhetoric: an anatomy of early modern knowledge 
T2  - The RSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric
SN  - 9780271084671
PY  - 2019///
CY  - University Park, PA
PB  - The Pennsylvania State University Press
KW  - Burton, Robert,
KW  - Rhetoric
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -