{"product_id":"robert-burton-s-rhetoric","title":"Robert Burton’s Rhetoric","description":"\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","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54226213732696,"sku":"9780271084664","price":32.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780271084664.jpg?v=1778728544","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/robert-burton-s-rhetoric","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}