{"product_id":"robert-burtons-rhetoric-an-anatomy-of-early-modern-knowledge-paperback","title":"Robert Burton's Rhetoric: An Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Wells\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in five editions between 1621 and 1651, \u003ci\u003eThe Anatomy of Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e marks a unique moment in the development of disciplines, when fields of knowledge were distinct but not yet restrictive. In \u003ci\u003eRobert Burton's Rhetoric\u003c\/i\u003e, Susan Wells analyzes the \u003ci\u003eAnatomy\u003c\/i\u003e, demonstrating how its early modern practices of knowledge and persuasion can offer a model for transdisciplinary scholarship today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eAnatomy\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fresh interpretation of \u003ci\u003eThe Anatomy of Melancholy\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSusan Wells\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English Emerita at Temple University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eSweet Reason: Rhetoric and the Discourses of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eOut of the Dead House: Nineteenth\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003eCentury Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003e\"Our Bodies, Ourselves\" and the Work of Writing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 11, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50409834741997,"sku":"9780271084664","price":59.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/robert-burtons-rhetoric-an-anatomy-of-early-modern-knowledge-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}