The Fame of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Posthumous Fashioning in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-94-6372-704-4
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Echenberg, Margo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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?)

Über Autor(innen)

Echenberg, Margo
Margo Echenberg is an Academic Associate in Teaching and Learning Services at McGill University