04184nam 2200733Ia 450 991046218090332120200520144314.01-280-12650-797866135303630-226-18464-110.7208/9780226184647(CKB)2670000000161999(EBL)881649(OCoLC)782923562(SSID)ssj0000658368(PQKBManifestationID)12309647(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000658368(PQKBWorkID)10691736(PQKB)10747878(StDuBDS)EDZ0000115849(MiAaPQ)EBC881649(DE-B1597)523470(DE-B1597)9780226184647(Au-PeEL)EBL881649(CaPaEBR)ebr10546506(CaONFJC)MIL353036(EXLCZ)99267000000016199920110913d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Renaissance rediscovery of intimacy[electronic resource] /Kathy EdenChicago ;London University of Chicago Pressc20121 online resource (160 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-52664-X 0-226-18462-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Rediscovering Style -- Chapter 1. A Rhetoric of Intimacy in Antiquity -- Chapter 2. A Rhetoric and Hermeneutics of Intimacy in Petrarch's Familiares -- Chapter 3. Familiaritas in Erasmian Rhetoric and Hermeneutics -- Chapter 4. Reading and Writing Intimately in Montaigne's Essais -- Conclusion. Rediscovering Individuality -- Bibliography of Secondary Sources -- IndexIn 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the Roman forum or the measured spokesman for the ancient schools of philosophy. It was Petrarch's encounter with this previously unknown Cicero and his letters that Kathy Eden argues fundamentally changed the way Europeans from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries were expected to read and write. The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy explores the way ancient epistolary theory and practice were understood and imitated in the European Renaissance.Eden draws chiefly upon Aristotle, Cicero, and Seneca-but also upon Plato, Demetrius, Quintilian, and many others-to show how the classical genre of the "familiar" letter emerged centuries later in the intimate styles of Petrarch, Erasmus, and Montaigne. Along the way, she reveals how the complex concept of intimacy in the Renaissance-leveraging the legal, affective, and stylistic dimensions of its prehistory in antiquity-pervades the literary production and reception of the period and sets the course for much that is modern in the literature of subsequent centuries. Eden's important study will interest students and scholars in a number of areas, including classical, Renaissance, and early modern studies; comparative literature; and the history of reading, rhetoric, and writing. European lettersRenaissance, 1450-1600History and criticismIntimacy (Psychology) in literatureEuropean lettersClassical influencesClassical lettersInfluenceRhetoric, AncientRhetoric, RenaissanceElectronic books.European lettersHistory and criticism.Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.European lettersClassical influences.Classical lettersInfluence.Rhetoric, Ancient.Rhetoric, Renaissance.809.6Eden Kathy1952-170834MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462180903321The Renaissance rediscovery of intimacy2125346UNINA