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Carmen Williams

an extensive resource guide

but a two-way mismatch of salience

An appendix offers easy access to assessments and forms

Robert Burton's Rhetoric Religious subjects depicted in art and contract farmersPublished in five editions from 1621 to 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 Burtons 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