Lo statuto sociale dell’amore nel Settecento: l’emozione ridefinita da mixité, spazi e diritti

The essay investigates the mutation that occurred in people during the Eighteenth century regarding the expectation of love: the change that took place in this field of feeling had the power to influence people’s choices and also to prefigure one’s future in ways that differed from family logic and...

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Main Author: Tiziana Plebani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2024-10-01
Series:Diciottesimo Secolo
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Online Access:https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/ds/article/view/15031
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description The essay investigates the mutation that occurred in people during the Eighteenth century regarding the expectation of love: the change that took place in this field of feeling had the power to influence people’s choices and also to prefigure one’s future in ways that differed from family logic and social devices. The feeling of love was no longer seen as a passion irreconcilable with the social order, but rather as a path to the realisation of a full life thanks to the spread of a culture of sensitivity capable of influencing every field of human experience, spreading into all social strata. A mutation that, rather than being an ‘emotional refuge’, as suggested by William Reddy, stimulated new practices of urban sociability that focused on the co-presence of the two sexes, against the segregation of the past, which helped the spreading of greater knowledge and the releasing of new emotions and a new sensibility between men and women, also encouraging an awareness of the ‘rights’ of the heart.
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spelling doaj-art-dcc428686f604703839cc8d623ee1f412025-08-20T02:11:43ZengFirenze University PressDiciottesimo Secolo2531-41652024-10-019212810.36253/ds-1503113860Lo statuto sociale dell’amore nel Settecento: l’emozione ridefinita da mixité, spazi e dirittiTiziana Plebani0Università Ca’ Foscari, VeneziaThe essay investigates the mutation that occurred in people during the Eighteenth century regarding the expectation of love: the change that took place in this field of feeling had the power to influence people’s choices and also to prefigure one’s future in ways that differed from family logic and social devices. The feeling of love was no longer seen as a passion irreconcilable with the social order, but rather as a path to the realisation of a full life thanks to the spread of a culture of sensitivity capable of influencing every field of human experience, spreading into all social strata. A mutation that, rather than being an ‘emotional refuge’, as suggested by William Reddy, stimulated new practices of urban sociability that focused on the co-presence of the two sexes, against the segregation of the past, which helped the spreading of greater knowledge and the releasing of new emotions and a new sensibility between men and women, also encouraging an awareness of the ‘rights’ of the heart.https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/ds/article/view/15031 mixitéspaces for feeling emotionalcommon senseculture of sensibilityrights of the heartempathyreading novels
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Lo statuto sociale dell’amore nel Settecento: l’emozione ridefinita da mixité, spazi e diritti
Diciottesimo Secolo
mixité
spaces for feeling emotional
common sense
culture of sensibility
rights of the heart
empathy
reading novels
title Lo statuto sociale dell’amore nel Settecento: l’emozione ridefinita da mixité, spazi e diritti
title_full Lo statuto sociale dell’amore nel Settecento: l’emozione ridefinita da mixité, spazi e diritti
title_fullStr Lo statuto sociale dell’amore nel Settecento: l’emozione ridefinita da mixité, spazi e diritti
title_full_unstemmed Lo statuto sociale dell’amore nel Settecento: l’emozione ridefinita da mixité, spazi e diritti
title_short Lo statuto sociale dell’amore nel Settecento: l’emozione ridefinita da mixité, spazi e diritti
title_sort lo statuto sociale dell amore nel settecento l emozione ridefinita da mixite spazi e diritti
topic mixité
spaces for feeling emotional
common sense
culture of sensibility
rights of the heart
empathy
reading novels
url https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/ds/article/view/15031
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