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, Wells Susan
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.05.2021
• EAN: 9780271084664
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08466-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, Communication Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc