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. Only by making her legible could she vie for the promise of posthumous fame. 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. 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 of 1700. Academica University of Applied Sciences.18th-century mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, red edges (restored, with newer gilt decoration added to the boards). Woodcut ornament on title page, woodcut head and tailpieces, factotum initials in vol 3 (a few small closed tears, paper flaw affecting printed page number in vol 2, browning). This is an attractive copy of a set usually only encountered in individual volumes, the complete works of the most important Latin American poet of the Colonial Era. The third volume of the present edition is sometimes, as in Sabin, recorded in bibliographies as a separate publication because it is so rarely found with its first two volumes. En todo hizo gala de su dominio del discurso y sus profundos conocimientos. Only the third volume of the first edition has appeared at auction in the last 50 years, and the various editions of her complete works are more often encountered piecemeal than together. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz escribió villancicos, romances, loas, sonetos, redondillas, comedias teatrales, autos sacramentales y textos argumentativos, entre otros géneros. Her bibliography is not well studied, and many editions so rarely found complete that they are not well understood. The extremely rare first edition of her work was published in 1689-1700 in Spain, cementing her reputation across the Atlantic as well. Her two most famous works today are the Primero sueño, a long Neoplatonist poem written in an original and learned style, and the Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz, her defense of women’s rights and education. In addition to her religious poetry, she wrote many secular works on commission from the court, including comedies and love poems. Sor Juana’s poetry is written in Spanish, Latin, and Nahuatl, and her work across genres engages with both contemporary and ancient philosophical traditions. Plague struck her convent in April 1695, and Sor Juana was among the many victims. She was eventually forced to sell her extensive library of some 4,000 volumes as well as her musical and scientific instruments-one of the largest in New Spain. Skilled in both Latin and Nahuatl as well as theology and logic, her radical thinking on church hierarchy and women's roles caused the Catholic Church to publish a letter in 1690 demanding that she focus on prayer rather than philosophy. Eschewing marriage, she entered a Hieronymite convent in 1669. The illegitimate daughter of a Spanish captain, Juana grew up in San Miguel Nepantla at her maternal grandfather's hacienda among his considerable library. Sor Juana was a Mexican philosopher, poet, playwright, book collector, and nun who is one of the most important figures of the Spanish Golden Age-and certainly the most important from Latin America. Madrid: Antonio Gonçalez de Reyes, 1714.Ī complete set, in a contemporary uniform binding, of the works of Sor Juana, also known as the “Tenth Muse” and the "Mexican Phoenix," an early edition. Madrid: Imprenta Real for Joseph Rodriguez de Escobar, 1715 Fama, y obras posthumas del fenix de México, dézima musa, poetisa Americana, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Madrid: Imprenta Real for Joseph Rodriguez de Escobar, 1714 –. Poemas de la Unica Poetisa Americana, Musa Dezima.
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