The Fame of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz : : Posthumous Fashioning in the Early Modern Hispanic World / / Margo Echenberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Echenberg, Margo,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 p.)

The Fame of Sor Juana Inés 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 póstumas [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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- A Note on the Text -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Fama -- 2. Soaring above the Rest -- 3. Light from the New World -- 4. With “Quills of Ink” and “Wings of Fragile Paper” -- Afterword (Or Why Think of the Fama as a Success If It Fails on Almost All Fronts?) -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography of Works Cited -- Index