Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- A Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Negotiating Rumor and Fame: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Posthumous Fama
- 1 The Fama: A Posthumous Imaging and Imagining of Sor Juana
- 2 Soaring above the Rest: Sor Juana as “Sacred Phoenix” and the Fama as Moral Exhortation
- 3 Light from the New World: Posthumous Praise for an American Mind
- 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?)
- Appendix A Contents of the Fama y obras pósthumas (1700)
- Appendix B Sections of the Fama y obras pósthumas (1700)
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index
A Note on the Text
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2023
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- A Note on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Negotiating Rumor and Fame: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Posthumous Fama
- 1 The Fama: A Posthumous Imaging and Imagining of Sor Juana
- 2 Soaring above the Rest: Sor Juana as “Sacred Phoenix” and the Fama as Moral Exhortation
- 3 Light from the New World: Posthumous Praise for an American Mind
- 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?)
- Appendix A Contents of the Fama y obras pósthumas (1700)
- Appendix B Sections of the Fama y obras pósthumas (1700)
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index
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- The Fame of Sor Juana Inés de la CruzPosthumous Fashioning in the Early Modern Hispanic World, pp. 7 - 8Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2023