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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Merrim, Stephanie
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [1999]
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Juana Inés de la Cruz, > Sister, > 1651-1695 > Knowledge > Women authors. Juana Inés de la Cruz, > Sister, > 1651-1695. > Respuesta a sor Filotea de la Cruz. Women authors > History > 17th century. Women and literature. Comparative literature.

Table of Contents:

Preface
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
Notes
Bibliography of works cited
Index.