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 transdisciplinary scholarship today.

About the author

Susan Wells is Professor of English Emerita at Temple University. She is the author of Sweet Reason: Rhetoric and the Discourses of Modernity; Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine; and "Our Bodies, Ourselves" and the Work of Writing.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Wells, Susan (Temple University (Emerita)) Wells
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780271084664
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08466-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 371 g
• Series: RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures