Robert Burton's Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge by Wells, Susan

Robert Burton's Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780271084664)

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Robert Burton's Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge by Wells, Susan

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

$32.95
Robert Burton's Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge by Wells, Susan

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

$32.95
Format: Paperback
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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.



Author: Susan Wells
ISBN-10: 0271084669
ISBN-13: 9780271084664
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2021
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d
By Susan Wells
By Susan Wells
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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.

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