Amores frustrados y deseos truncados, fábrica de endemoniadas en la era de la Ilustración: Teresa Olivares, la energúmena de Manzanares (1790-1798)
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Gómez Vozmediano, Miguel Fernando
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Artykuł z czasopisma
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2021
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Hipogrifo: Revista de Literatura y Cultura del Siglo de Oro ISSN 2328-1308 Vol. 9, Nº. 1, 2021, pags. 841-865
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Traditionally, love has been a feeling that had distorted social rules and behavior. In the years between the 18th and 19th Centuries, the Enlightenment gave way to pre-Romanticism, a cultural movement that exalted happiness and free will of individuals, incidentally opening a window of freedom for women to choose their better half. In this changing context, some cases of alleged women´s demonic possession masked in reality nervous breakdowns and love depressions. These mental disorders were generated, consciously or unconsciously, by the rebellion of women against the prevailing patriarchal system, either in response to sexual harassment or in order to avoid family pressures to marry against their own desires