TY - CHAP
T1 - This is Not a Letter
T2 - A Sympathetic Story of Epistolary Fiction, 1520-1992
AU - Barnes, Diana G
PY - 2025/10/30
Y1 - 2025/10/30
N2 - As the letters of Ovid and Cicero cited above show the letter is an inherently emotional mode of writing. Even in letters concerning mundane matters: the language [should low] along Like the clear water of a spring with a pleasant, gentle murmur, and ... not seem dead and sluggish Like fen water, devoid of all emotion' as Desiderius Erasmus explained in his treatise 'On the Art of Writing Letters' (De conscribendis epistolis, I522).' Both of these letters are written in emotion-rich language designed to lead the reader to imagine emotional turmoil, but there is a key difference between Cicero's letter to his friend Atticus and Dryden's translation of Canaces letter to her brother-lover Macareus composed by Ovid, One began its life as an actual missive, and the other is a representation of a letter crafted for a wider read
AB - As the letters of Ovid and Cicero cited above show the letter is an inherently emotional mode of writing. Even in letters concerning mundane matters: the language [should low] along Like the clear water of a spring with a pleasant, gentle murmur, and ... not seem dead and sluggish Like fen water, devoid of all emotion' as Desiderius Erasmus explained in his treatise 'On the Art of Writing Letters' (De conscribendis epistolis, I522).' Both of these letters are written in emotion-rich language designed to lead the reader to imagine emotional turmoil, but there is a key difference between Cicero's letter to his friend Atticus and Dryden's translation of Canaces letter to her brother-lover Macareus composed by Ovid, One began its life as an actual missive, and the other is a representation of a letter crafted for a wider read
UR - https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/emotions-and-the-letter-9781350345164/
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781350345157
SN - 9781350345164
SN - 9781350345171
T3 - Historty of Emotions
SP - 105
EP - 127
BT - Emotions and the letter: a history from antiquity to the present
A2 - Barclay, null
A2 - Barnes, Katie and
A2 - G, Diana
CY - London, United Kingdom
ER -