Sor Juana In駸 de la Cruz: Selected Works (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393241754)

Sor Juana (1651-1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her "the Tenth Muse" and "the Phoenix of Mexico," names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual, and court favorite, she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden Age.

This volume includes Sor Juana's best-known works: "First Dream," her longest poem and the one that showcases her prodigious intellect and range, and "Response of the Poet to the Very Eminent Sor Filotea de la Cruz," her epistolary feminist defense--evocative of Mary Wollstonecraft and Emily Dickinson--of a woman's right to study and to write. Thirty other works--playful ballads, extraordinary sonnets, intimate poems of love, and a selection from an allegorical play with a distinctive New World flavor--are also included.

Author: Juana In駸 de la Cruz
ISBN-10: 0393241750
ISBN-13: 9780393241754
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 09/29/2014
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/18/2014
Booklist 09/15/2014 pg. 14