Susan Wells

Broschiertes Buch

Robert Burton's Rhetoric

An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780271084664
• ISBN-10: 0271084669
• Artikelnr.: 61179568