Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy
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bonding
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cicero
closeness
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erasmus
familiarity
friendship
history
homosocial
intertextuality
intimacy
letters
literary criticism
male friends
masculinity
montaigne
nonfiction
petrarch
plato
prehistory
quintilian
reading
renaissance
rhetoric
seneca
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- ISBN 9780226526645
- Weight: 255g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2017
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Kathy Eden is the Chavkin Family Professor of English Literature and professor of classics at Columbia University. She is the author of several books, including Friends Hold All Things in Common: Tradition, Intellectual Property, and the Adages of Erasmus.
