Early modern women's writing and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
By: Stephanie Merrim.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Nashville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695 -- Knowledge -- Women authors; Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695; Women and literature -- History -- 17th century; Literature, Comparative
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and early modern women's writing; title: From anomaly to icon : border-crossings, Catalina de Erauso, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; title: Women on love, part I : love in a choleric time; title: Women on love, part II : Sor Juana, Maria de Zayas, and Madame de Lafayette; title: Auto-machia : the self-representations of Sor Juana and Anne Bradstreet; title: The new Prometheus : women's education, autodidacticism, and the will to signature.