Robert Burton's Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge

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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