Routledge Research Companion to the Works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Emilie L. Bergmann is Professor of Spanish at the University of California, Berkeley, with fields of specialization in early modern Spain and Spanish America.Stacey Schlau is Professor of Spanish and Women’s and Gender Studies at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

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• Table of ContentsIntroduction. Emilie L. Bergmann and Stacey Schlau A Note About Conventions I. Contexts1. "The Empire and Mexico City: Religious, Political, and Social Institutions of a Transatlantic Enterprise." Alejandro Cañeque 2. "The Creole Intellectual Project: Creating the Baroque Archive." Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel 3. "The Gendering of Knowledge in New Spain: Enclosure, Women’s Education, and Writing." Stephanie Kirk II. Reception History4. "Seventeenth Century Dialogues: Transatlantic Readings of Sor Juana." Mónica Díaz 5. "Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century Readings: Hagiography and Nationalism." Martha Lilia Tenorio 6. "Twentieth Century Readings: Schons, Pfandl, and Paz." Marie-Cécile Benassy-Berling 7. "Passionate Advocate: Sor Juana, Feminisms, and Sapphic Loves." Amanda Powell 8. "Translations of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Ideology and Interpretation." Isabel Gómez 9. "’My original, a woman’: Copies, Origins, and Sor Juana’s Iconic Portraits." J. Vanessa Lyon10. "Contemporary Mexican Sor Juanas: Artistic, Popular, and Scholarly." Emily Hind III. Interpretations of and Debates about the WorksA. Prose Works 11. "The Afterlife of a Polemic: Conflicts and Discoveries Regarding Sor Juana’s Letters." Marie-Cécile Benassy-Berling 12. "Challenging Theological Authority: The Carta Atenagórica /Crisis de un sermón and the Respuesta a sor Filotea." Grady Wray B. Verse 13. "Sor Juana’s Love Poetry: A Woman’s Voice in a Man’s Genre." Emilie L. Bergmann 14. "Sor Juana’s Romances: Between Fame, Contemplation, and Celebration." Rocío Quispe-Agnoli 15. "Philosophical Sonnets: Through a Baroque Lens." Luis Avilés 16. "Primero sueño: Heresy and Knowledge." Alessandra Luiselli. C. Theater and Public Art17. "Writing for the Public Eye: Theatrical Production, Church Spectacle, and State-Sponsored Art (The Neptuno alegórico)." Verónica Grossi18. "Sor Juana as Lyricist and Musical Theorist." Mario Ortiz 19. "Loa to El Divino Narciso: The Costs of Critiquing the Conquest." Ivonne del Valle 20. "The Autos: Theology on Stage." Linda Egan 21. "Los empeños de una casa: Staging Gender." Susana Hernández Araico 22. "Recently Discovered Plays: La segunda Celestina and Amor es más laberinto." Guillermo Schmidhuber IV. Future Directions for Research 23. "Understudied Aspects of Canonical Works and Potential Approaches to Little-Studied Works." George Antony Thomas Works Cited