Robert Burton's Rhetoric An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge |
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| Author:
| Wells, Susan |
| Series title: | RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-271-08466-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2021 |
| Publisher: | Pennsylvania State University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.