The Routledge Research Companion to Early Modern Spanish Women Writers

ISBN-13: 9781032096551 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 384 str.

Nieves Baranda; Anne J. Cruz

Opis

The Ashgate Research Companion to Early Modern Spanish Women Writers covers the broad array of different kinds of writings that these women wrote, taking into consideration their subject positions and the cultural and historical contexts that influenced and were influenced by them. 

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction, Nieves Baranda Leturio and Anne J. Cruz

SECTION I: WOMEN’S WORLDS

1. Aristocracy and the Urban Elite, Grace E. Coolidge











2. Women’s Education in Early Modern Spain, Anne J. Cruz











3. The Early Modern Foundations of the Querella de las mujeres, Emily C. Francomano







SECTION II: CONVENTUAL SPACES









4. Autobiographies, Isabelle Poutrin











5. Chronicles, Biographies, Hagiographies, Mercedes Marcos Sánchez











6. Conventual Correspondence, María Leticia Sánchez Hernández and Nieves Baranda Leturio











7. Convent Theater, María Carmen Alarcón Román











8. Body, Spirit, and Verse: Reading Early Modern Women’s Religious Poetry, Stacey L. Schlau







SECTION III: SECULAR LITERATURE









9. The Poetic Voice, María Dolores Martos Pérez











10. Literary Academies and Poetic Tournaments, Inmaculada Osuna Rodríguez











11. Novels and Narratives, Shifra Armon











12. Women Playwrights, Amy R. Williamsen







SECTION IV: WOMEN IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE









13. Public Poetry, María Carmen Marín Pina











14. Spain’s Women Humanists, Emilie L. Bergmann











15. Women and Power, Nieves Romero-Díaz







SECTION V: PRIVATE CIRCLES









16. Didactic Treatises, Rosilie Hernández











17. The Familial Lyric, Gwyn Fox











18. Private Correspondence, Vanessa de Cruz Medina







SECTION VI: WOMEN TRAVELERS









19. Foundation Narratives, Darcy Donahue











20. Transatlantic Religious, Sarah E. Owens











21. Secular Women Writers in the New World (1543–1700), Rocío Quispe-Agnoli











22. Transnational Exchanges, Nieves Baranda Leturio

Index

O autorze

Nieves Baranda is Professor of Spanish Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain.

Anne J. Cruz is Professor of Spanish and Cooper Fellow Emerita at the University of Miami, USA.