"Women Writers of Early Modern Spain" by Bárbara Mujica

Women Writers of Early Modern Spain Sophia’s Daughters Bárbara Mujica

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Series:: Yale Language Series
Format:: Paperback
Publication date:: 10 Nov 2003
ISBN:: 9780300092578
Imprint:: Yale University Press
Dimensions:: 448 pages: 254 x 178mm
Illustrations:: 20 b-w illus.

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This fascinating collection is the first to gather together a wide variety of works by Spanish women writers of the Golden Age. In the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, the cloister was a refuge for women with intellectual aspirations. A small percentage of women in religious orders put their writing skills to literary use, producing biographies of founding sisters, histories of their orders, and even poetry and theater. Most of these writings were never published, and only now are researchers beginning to unearth and transcribe them.

Women Writers of Early Modern Spain features:

Spanish texts by Oliva Sabuco de Nantes, María de Zayas, Ana Caro, Leonor de la Cueva, and many others;
An introduction in Spanish to each reading, with biographical information, comments on the author’s approach, an overview of pertinent criticism, and an analysis of the work;
A generous English introduction to the volume, placing writing by early modern Spanish women within the broader context of European life and culture;
Full footnotes and topics for discussion for each unit;
A selected bibliography for readers who wish to pursue independent study.

"Expanding the accepted canon, B rbara Mujica includes works that were unknown and unstudied until recent years as she guides us on this insightful excursion through Spanish literary history.??Joan Cammarata, Manhattan College

?Barbara Mujica?s work is an impressive survey of the major works written by women of Spain?s Golden Age from the convent to the court. Mujica attempts to provide a glimpse at canonical and not-so canonical female writers. Introductions are informational, concise and notes are kept to a minimum. I would gladly recommend this book for everyone interested in women?s studies and the formation of the early modern female.??Julio V‚lez-Sainz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

?This new book will be a wonderful addition to all classes devoted to the study and analysis of great literature from Spain and Latin America. Finally all of us will be able to read and appreciate the wonderful contribution of talented women writers. Thank you, Barbara Mujica, for another exceptional/fabulous anthology.??Kate Regan, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Portland