The Routledge research companion to early modern Spanish women writers

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The Routledge research companion to early modern Spanish women writers

edited by Nieves Baranda and Anne J. Cruz

Routledge, 2018 [i.e. 2017]

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In Spain, the two hundred years that elapsed between the beginning of the early modern period and the final years of the Habsburg Empire saw a profusion of works written by women. Whether secular or religious, noble or middle class, early modern Spanish women actively composed creative works such as poetry, prose narratives, and plays. The Routledge Research Companion to Early Modern Spanish Women Writers covers the broad array of different kinds of writings - literary as well as extra-literary - that these women wrote, taking into consideration their subject positions and the cultural and historical contexts that influenced and were influenced by them. Beyond merely recognizing the individual women authors who had influence in literary, religious, and intellectual circles, this Research Companion investigates their participation in these circles through their writings, as well as the ways in which their texts informed Spain's cultural production during the early modern period. In order to contextualize women's writings across the historical and cultural spectrum of early modern Spain, the Research Companion is divided into six sections of general thematic interest: Women's Worlds; Conventual Spaces; Secular Literature; Women in the Public Sphere; Private Circles; Women Travelers. Each section is subdivided into chapters that focus on specific issues or topics.

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CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction, Nieves Baranda Leturio and Anne J. Cruz SECTION I: WOMEN'S WORLDS Aristocracy and the Urban Elite, Grace E. Coolidge Women's Education in Early Modern Spain, Anne J. Cruz The Early Modern Foundations of the Querella de las mujeres, Emily C. Francomano SECTION II: CONVENTUAL SPACES Autobiographies, Isabelle Poutrin Chronicles, Biographies, Hagiographies, Mercedes Marcos Sanchez Conventual Correspondence, Maria Leticia Sanchez Hernandez and Nieves Baranda Leturio Convent Theater, Maria Carmen Alarcon Roman Body, Spirit, and Verse: Reading Early Modern Women's Religious Poetry, Stacey L. Schlau SECTION III: SECULAR LITERATURE The Poetic Voice, Maria Dolores Martos Perez Literary Academies and Poetic Tournaments, Inmaculada Osuna Rodriguez Novels and Narratives, Shifra Armon Women Playwrights, Amy R. Williamsen SECTION IV: WOMEN IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE Public Poetry, Maria Carmen Marin Pina Spain's Women Humanists, Emilie L. Bergmann Women and Power, Nieves Romero-Diaz SECTION V: PRIVATE CIRCLES Didactic Treatises, Rosilie Hernandez The Familial Lyric, Gwyn Fox Private Correspondence, Vanessa de Cruz Medina SECTION VI: WOMEN TRAVELERS Foundation Narratives, Darcy Donahue Transatlantic Religious, Sarah E. Owens Secular Women Writers in the New World (1543-1700), Rocio Quispe-Agnoli Transnational Exchanges, Nieves Baranda Leturio Index

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