Sensibility, Self-Control, and Friendship in the Writings of the Princess of Carignano, Caluso and Alfieri

Sensibilité in the eighteenth century was often associated with friendship, but friendship was mostly conceived as limited to relationships between males. The Princess of Carignano challenges this gendered distinction between friendship and love in her literary self-portrait, which documents her que...

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Published inArts et Savoirs no. 11
Main Author Cabot, Aria Zan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Laboratoire LISAA 16.07.2019
Subjects
amitié
Alfieri (Vittorio)
identité de genre
friendship
gender identity
sensibility
Caluso (Tommaso Valperga di)
autobiographie
autobiography
Carignano (Marie Joséphine Thérèse de Lorraine)
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Summary:Sensibilité in the eighteenth century was often associated with friendship, but friendship was mostly conceived as limited to relationships between males. The Princess of Carignano challenges this gendered distinction between friendship and love in her literary self-portrait, which documents her quest to master the passions and to prove herself capable of intellectual and emotional fellowship with members of the Italian literary elite, such as Vittorio Alfieri and Tommaso Valperga di Caluso.
ISSN:2258-093X
2258-093X
DOI:10.4000/aes.1939