Title The Renaissance rediscovery of intimacy / Kathy Eden

Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 149 pages) Contents Introduction: Rediscovering style -- A rhetoric of intimacy in antiquity -- A rhetoric and hermeneutics of intimacy in Petrarch's Familiares -- Familiaritas in Erasmian rhetoric and hermeneutics -- Reading and writing intimately in Montaigne's Essais -- Conclusion: Rediscovering individuality Summary In 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-144) and index Notes Print version record Subject Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374. Epistolae familiares Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 -- Criticism and interpretation Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais SUBJECT Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 fast Epistolae familiares (Petrarca, Francesco) fast Essais (Montaigne, Michel de) fast Subject European letters -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism Intimacy (Psychology) in literature. European letters -- Classical influences Classical letters -- Influence Rhetoric, Ancient. Rhetoric, Renaissance. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. European letters -- Renaissance Intimacy (Psychology) in literature Rhetoric, Ancient Rhetoric, Renaissance Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226184647 0226184641 1280126507 9781280126505

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