1st Edition
The Fame of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Posthumous Fashioning in the Early Modern Hispanic World
By Margo Echenberg
Copyright 2023
314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
314 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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?)
Biography
Margo Echenberg is an Academic Associate in Teaching and Learning Services at McGill University.
