The Vindication of Eros in the Age of Enlightenment: Los besos de amor by Juan Meléndez Valdés
<p>The article attempts to demonstrate how, in eighteenth-century Europe, certain literary texts with an erotic subject matter belong to the change in thinking and practices associated with the Enlightenment. The argument begins with an examination of how ideas relating to human sexuality cont...
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doaj-c30113a5f492499cbaf1016378c3a09e2020-11-25T02:53:18ZspaUniversidad de SalamancaCuadernos Dieciochistas1576-79142341-19022018-05-0118015718910.14201/cuadieci20171815718914909The Vindication of Eros in the Age of Enlightenment: Los besos de amor by Juan Meléndez ValdésPhilip DEACON0Universidad de Sheffield<p>The article attempts to demonstrate how, in eighteenth-century Europe, certain literary texts with an erotic subject matter belong to the change in thinking and practices associated with the Enlightenment. The argument begins with an examination of how ideas relating to human sexuality contribute to a new vision of humanity grounded in Enlightenment thought. Links are made between theorizing elsewhere in Europe and the expression of concepts of sexuality at variance with official thinking in Spain but which can be observed in cases preserved in Inquisition files. Having established this intellectual and cultural framework, the collection of poems entitled <em>Los besos de amor</em> by Juan Meléndez Valdés is analysed in an attempt to demonstrate how the author’s exploration of human sexuality defies the restrictions placed on such writings by the Spanish Inquisition, with the result that Meléndez’s verses could not be published in his lifetime.</p>http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/1576-7914/article/view/17090erotismopoesíajuan meléndez valdéslos besos de amorlas lucesla inquisición españolathe eroticpoetryjuan meléndez valdéslos besos de amorenlightenmentspanish inquisition |
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Philip DEACON The Vindication of Eros in the Age of Enlightenment: Los besos de amor by Juan Meléndez Valdés Cuadernos Dieciochistas erotismo poesía juan meléndez valdés los besos de amor las luces la inquisición española the erotic poetry juan meléndez valdés los besos de amor enlightenment spanish inquisition |
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The Vindication of Eros in the Age of Enlightenment: Los besos de amor by Juan Meléndez Valdés |
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The Vindication of Eros in the Age of Enlightenment: Los besos de amor by Juan Meléndez Valdés |
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The Vindication of Eros in the Age of Enlightenment: Los besos de amor by Juan Meléndez Valdés |
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The Vindication of Eros in the Age of Enlightenment: Los besos de amor by Juan Meléndez Valdés |
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The Vindication of Eros in the Age of Enlightenment: Los besos de amor by Juan Meléndez Valdés |
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vindication of eros in the age of enlightenment: los besos de amor by juan meléndez valdés |
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Universidad de Salamanca |
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Cuadernos Dieciochistas |
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1576-7914 2341-1902 |
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<p>The article attempts to demonstrate how, in eighteenth-century Europe, certain literary texts with an erotic subject matter belong to the change in thinking and practices associated with the Enlightenment. The argument begins with an examination of how ideas relating to human sexuality contribute to a new vision of humanity grounded in Enlightenment thought. Links are made between theorizing elsewhere in Europe and the expression of concepts of sexuality at variance with official thinking in Spain but which can be observed in cases preserved in Inquisition files. Having established this intellectual and cultural framework, the collection of poems entitled <em>Los besos de amor</em> by Juan Meléndez Valdés is analysed in an attempt to demonstrate how the author’s exploration of human sexuality defies the restrictions placed on such writings by the Spanish Inquisition, with the result that Meléndez’s verses could not be published in his lifetime.</p> |
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erotismo poesía juan meléndez valdés los besos de amor las luces la inquisición española the erotic poetry juan meléndez valdés los besos de amor enlightenment spanish inquisition |
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