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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 knowledg
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- Author
- Susan Wells
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press; Penn State University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780271085487
- Category
- language
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Language Learning, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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