The Fame of Sor Juana In駸 de la Cruz: Posthumous Fashioning in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789463727044)

The Fame of Sor Juana In駸 de la Cruz traces the meteoric trajectory of the Mexican Tenth Muse's renown and studies how her worldly celebrity was altered posthumously by elegists in her Fama y obras ptumas [Fame and Posthumous Works] of 1700. In this study of a polyphonic, transatlantic volume, the didactic framework of early modern fame is pushed to its limits as panegyrists inscribe the nun into an evolving world-view that could trade in the fictions of the saintly exemplar, the Tenth Muse or a New World treasure, but could not preserve a woman's renown on the grounds of authorship. Only by making her legible could she vie for the promise of posthumous fame. In flushing out the machinations of Sor Juana's role as agent of her own celebrity as well as the negotiations of her contemporaries, this book opens new lines of inquiry in the study of early modern fame and print culture and the role of writers, panegyrists and editors as cultural agents in the transatlantic literary relationship between Mexico and Spain.

Author: Margo Echenberg
ISBN-10: 9463727043
ISBN-13: 9789463727044
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2023
Pages: 314
Format: Hardcover