Robert Burton’s Rhetoric - Susan Wells

Robert Burton’s Rhetoric

An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge

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Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2021
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-08466-4 (ISBN)
46,35 inkl. MwSt
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.
Published in five editions between 1621 and 1651, The Anatomy of Melancholy marks a unique moment in the development of disciplines, when fields of knowledge were distinct but not yet restrictive. In Robert Burton’s Rhetoric, Susan Wells analyzes the Anatomy, demonstrating how its early modern practices of knowledge and persuasion can offer a model for transdisciplinary scholarship today.

In the first decades of the seventeenth century, Robert Burton attempted to gather all the existing knowledge about melancholy, drawing from professional discourses including theology, medicine, and philology as well as the emerging sciences. Examining this text through a rhetorical lens, Wells provides an account of these disciplinary exchanges in all their subtle variety and abundant wit, showing that questions of how knowledge is organized and how it is made persuasive are central to rhetorical theory. Ultimately, Wells argues that in addition to a book about melancholy, Burton’s Anatomy is a meditation on knowledge.

A fresh interpretation of The Anatomy of Melancholy, this volume will be welcomed by scholars of early modern English and the rhetorics of health and medicine, as well as those interested in transdisciplinary work and rhetorical theory.

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.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments



1. A Monstrous Anatomy

2. Burton’s Anatomy : Genres as Species and Spaces

3. The Anatomy of Melancholy and Early Modern Medicine

4. Burton, Rhetoric, and the Shapes of Thought

5. Translingualism: The Philologist as Language Broker

6. The Anatomy of Melancholy and Transdisciplinary Rhetoric



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Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
Zusatzinfo 5 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort University Park
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 340 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-271-08466-9 / 0271084669
ISBN-13 978-0-271-08466-4 / 9780271084664
Zustand Neuware
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