Robert Burton's Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge
- ISBN-10
- 0271084677
- ISBN-13
- 9780271084671
- Category
- Rhetoric
- Pages
- 211
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
- Author
- Susan Wells
Description
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.
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