| Description |
1 online resource (314 pages) : illustrations |
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Gendering the late medieval and early modern world |
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Gendering the late medieval and early modern world.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- A Note on the Text -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Fama -- 2. Soaring above the Rest -- 3. Light from the New World -- 4. With "Quills of Ink" and "Wings of Fragile Paper" -- Afterword (Or Why Think of the Fama as a Success If It Fails on Almost All Fronts?) -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
"The Fame of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" traces the meteoric trajectory of the Mexican Tenth Muse's renown and studies how her worldly celebrity was altered posthumously by elegists in her "Fama y obras póstumas"[Fame and Posthumous Works] of 1700. In this study of a polyphonic, transatlantic volume, the didactic framework of early modern fame is pushed to its limits as panegyrists inscribe the nun into an evolving world-view that could trade in the fictions of the saintly exemplar, the Tenth Muse or a New World treasure, but could not preserve a woman's renown on the grounds of authorship. Only by making her legible could she vie for the promise of posthumous fame. In flushing out the machinations of Sor Juana's role as agent of her own celebrity as well as the negotiations of her contemporaries, this book opens new lines of inquiry in the study of early modern fame and print culture and the role of writers, panegyrists and editors as cultural agents in the transatlantic literary relationship between Mexico and Spain |
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History, Art History, and Archaeology |
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HIS |
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Early Modern Studies |
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EARLY MOD |
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Gender and Sexuality Studies |
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GEND & SEXU |
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Literary Theory, Criticism, and History |
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LIT |
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, fame, early modern women, posterity, posthumous works |
| Notes |
"Amsterdam University Press" |
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A Note on the Text Abbreviations Illustration Acknowledgements Introduction: Negotiating Rumor and Fame: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's Posthumous "Fama" Chapter 1: The "Fama": A Posthumous Imaging and Imagining of Sor Juana Chapter 2: Soaring Above the Rest: Sor Juana as the "Sacred Phoenix" and the "Fama" as Moral Exhortation Chapter 3: Light from the New World: Posthumous Praise for an American Mind Chapter 4: With "Quills of Ink" and "Wings of Fragile Paper": Sor Juana Responds to Her Public Image Afterword (Or Why Think of the "Fama" as a Success if it Fails on Almost all Fronts?) |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 25, 2023) |
| Subject |
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695.
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| SUBJECT |
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695 fast |
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Mexican literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism
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Literary studies: c. 1500 to c. 1800.
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Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700.
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HISTORY / Women *
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century *
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Mexican literature
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Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800.
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Gender studies: women and girls.
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Social and cultural history.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789048552894 |
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9048552893 |
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