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This book maps the field of seventeenth-century women's writing in Spanish, English, and French and situates the work of Sor Juana more clearly within that field. It holds up the multi-layered, proto-feminist writings of Sor Juana as a meaningful lens through which to focus the literary production of her female contemporaries. Merrim's book advances the integration of Hispanic women authors and women's issues into the panorama of early modern women's writing and opens up unexplored commonalities between Sor Juana and her sister writers.

Early modern women writers whose works are explored include Marie de Gournay, Margaret Fell Fox, Catalina de Erauso, Maria de Zayas, Ana Caro, Mme de Lafayette, Anne Bradstreet, St. Teresa, and Margaret Lucas Cavendish.

Merrim's study provides a full-bodied picture of the resources that the cultural and historical climates of the seventeenth century placed at the disposal of women writers, the manners in which women writers instrumentalized them, the building blocks and concerns of early modern women's writing, and the continuities between early modern and modern women's writing.

Written in an engaging, clear manner, this innovative study will be of interest not only to Hispanists but also to scholars in early modern studies, women's studies, history, and comparative literature..
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En plena madurez literaria, sor Juana criticó un sermón del padre Vieyra. Ello provocó que el obispo de Puebla, Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz, le pidiera que abandonase la literatura y se dedicase por entero a la religión. Sor Juana se defendió con una aguda respuesta In the midst of her literary maturity, Sor Juana criticized a sermon given by Father Vieyra. That critique provoked the Bishop of Puebla, Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz, to ask her to give up literature and dedicate herself exclusively to religious duties. Sor Juana defended herself with a sharply written response..
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“[The Answer] is eloquent, sardonic, learned and, particularly in its autobiographical part, of great freshness ”—The Times Literary Supplement

“One of the landmarks of Renaissance literature and . . . in the history of intellectual freedom. . . . This is essential reading.”—Stephen Greenblatt, best-selling author and professor

“Recommended for informed readers.”—Library Journal

Expanded to include fresh translations, an updated bibliography, and the letter that provoked the writing of The Answer, this new edition of the bilingual, critical bestseller provides the most accurate translations of works by the iconic seventeenth-century Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

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