Early modern women's writing and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

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Early modern women's writing and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

1st ed.

This book maps the field of seventeenth-century women's writing in Spanish, English, and French and situates the work of Sor Juana more clearly within that field. It holds up the multilayered, protofeminist writings of Sor Juana as a meaningful lens through which to examine the literary production of her female contemporaries.

Early modern women writers whose works are explored include Marie de Gournay, Margaret Fell Fox, Catalina de Erauso, Maria de Zayas, Ana Caro, Mme de Lafayette, Anne Bradstreet, Saint Teresa, and Margaret Lucas Cavendish. This innovative study will be of interest not only to Hispanists but also to scholars in early modern studies, women's studies, history, and comparative literature.

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Language
English
Pages
323

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Early modern women's writing and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1999, Vanderbilt University Press
in English - 1st ed.
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Early modern women's writing and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
1999, Liverpool University Press
in English

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Table of Contents

Introduction : Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and early modern women's writing
From anomaly to icon : border-crossings, Catalina de Erauso, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Women on love, part I : love in a choleric time
Women on love, part II : Sor Juana, Maria de Zayas, and Madame de Lafayette
Auto-machia : the self-representations of Sor Juana and Anne Bradstreet
The new Prometheus : women's education, autodidacticism, and the will to signature.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-310) and index.

Published in
Nashville

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
861
Library of Congress
PQ7296.J6 Z697 1999, PQ7296.J6Z697 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xliv, 323 p. ;
Number of pages
323

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL530037M
ISBN 10
0826513301, 0826513387
LCCN
99006029
OCLC/WorldCat
40660091
Goodreads
565656
1187130

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL2346720W

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