Science and Literary Style in Robert Burton's "Cento Out of Divers Writers"

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  • Leonard Goldstein Rutgers University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14713/jrul.v21i2.1372

Keywords:

Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy

Abstract

Goldstein seeks to discover in the writings of Robert Burton (1577–1640), the origins of his style.  He concludes his style "is a product neither solely of an emerging Weltbild nor solely of emerging individuality.  It is a product of an emerging modern society."

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Leonard Goldstein, Rutgers University

Rutgers University Libraries

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Published

2012-05-07

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