The "Lettres" of Mademoiselle de Lespinasse (1732-1776) had considerable success in the 19th century for their proximity to the Romantic feeling of an extreme and painful idea of “ amour passion ” . But a reading that contextualis- es them in contemporary conventual writing and medical discourse, and at the same time in the literary and philosophical space of the siècle des Lumières, allows us to grasp in this epistolary the sensist and materialist perspective that Mademoiselle de Lespinasse deploys in the representation of the female body and, above all, a new way of questioning herself, of perceiving her own exis- tence, of circumscribing it starting from her own physicality, her own em- bodied boundaries. So that the body, freed from all mysticism and the mil- lenary dualism that opposed it to the soul, can finally assert itself as the source of an early, in western culture, self-awareness.
Fra "égarements" e "affections vaporeuses": raccontare la sofferenza del corpo
Carminella Sipala
2025-01-01
Abstract
The "Lettres" of Mademoiselle de Lespinasse (1732-1776) had considerable success in the 19th century for their proximity to the Romantic feeling of an extreme and painful idea of “ amour passion ” . But a reading that contextualis- es them in contemporary conventual writing and medical discourse, and at the same time in the literary and philosophical space of the siècle des Lumières, allows us to grasp in this epistolary the sensist and materialist perspective that Mademoiselle de Lespinasse deploys in the representation of the female body and, above all, a new way of questioning herself, of perceiving her own exis- tence, of circumscribing it starting from her own physicality, her own em- bodied boundaries. So that the body, freed from all mysticism and the mil- lenary dualism that opposed it to the soul, can finally assert itself as the source of an early, in western culture, self-awareness.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
