LEADER 03409oam 22005774a 450 001 9910824512403321 005 20231113121554.0 010 $a0-271-08550-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271085500 035 $a(CKB)4100000010658907 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6224535 035 $a(OCoLC)1144782495 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse84175 035 $a(DE-B1597)584351 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271085500 035 $a(OCoLC)1253313608 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010658907 100 $a20191217d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRobert Burton?s Rhetoric$eAn Anatomy of Early Modern Knowledge /$fSusan Wells 210 1$aUniversity Park :$cPennsylvania State University Press$d2019. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d2021 210 4$dİ2019. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 211 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aRSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric$v12 311 0 $a0-271-08467-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. A Monstrous Anatomy --$t2. Burton?s Anatomy: Genres as Species and Spaces --$t3. The Anatomy of Melancholy and Early Modern Medicine --$t4. Burton, Rhetoric, and the Shapes of Thought --$t5. Translingualism: The Philologist as Language Broker --$t6. The Anatomy of Melancholy and Transdisciplinary Rhetoric --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 8 $aPublished in five editions between 1621 and 1651, The Anatomy of Melancholy marks a unique moment in the development of disciplines, when fields of knowledge were distinct but not yet restrictive. In Robert Burton's Rhetoric, Susan Wells analyzes the Anatomy, demonstrating how its early modern practices of knowledge and persuasion can offer a model for transdisciplinary scholarship today. In the first decades of the seventeenth century, Robert Burton attempted to gather all the existing knowledge about melancholy, drawing from professional discourses including theology, medicine, and philology as well as the emerging sciences. Examining this text through a rhetorical lens, Wells provides an account of these disciplinary exchanges in all their subtle variety and abundant wit, showing that questions of how knowledge is organized and how it is made persuasive are central to rhetorical theory. Ultimately, Wells argues that in addition to a book about melancholy, Burton's Anatomy is a meditation on knowledge. A fresh interpretation of The Anatomy of Melancholy, this volume will be welcomed by scholars of early modern English and the rhetorics of health and medicine, as well as those interested in transdisciplinary work and rhetorical theory. 410 0$aRSA series in transdisciplinary rhetoric. 606 $aRhetoric 610 $aRobert Burton. 610 $ainterdisciplinary. 610 $amelancholy. 610 $arhetoric of health. 610 $arhetoric of medicine. 610 $arhetoric. 610 $atransdisciplinar. 615 0$aRhetoric. 676 $a616.89 700 $aWells$b Susan$f1947-$01622230 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824512403321 996 $aRobert Burton?s Rhetoric$93988243 997 $aUNINA