The Routledge Research Companion to Early Modern Spanish Women Writers

The Ashgate Research Companion to Early Modern Spanish Women Writers covers the broad array of different kinds of writings that these women wrote, taking into consideration their subject positions and the cultural and historical contexts that influenced and were influenced by them.

Nieves Baranda is Professor of Spanish Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain. Anne J. Cruz is Professor of Spanish and Cooper Fellow Emerita at the University of Miami, USA.

CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction, Nieves Baranda Leturio and Anne J. Cruz SECTION I: WOMEN'S WORLDS Aristocracy and the Urban Elite, Grace E. Coolidge Women's Education in Early Modern Spain, Anne J. Cruz The Early Modern Foundations of the Querella de las mujeres, Emily C. Francomano SECTION II: CONVENTUAL SPACES Autobiographies, Isabelle Poutrin Chronicles, Biographies, Hagiographies, Mercedes Marcos Sánchez Conventual Correspondence, María Leticia Sánchez Hernández and Nieves Baranda Leturio Convent Theater, María Carmen Alarcón Román Body, Spirit, and Verse: Reading Early Modern Women's Religious Poetry, Stacey L. Schlau SECTION III: SECULAR LITERATURE The Poetic Voice, María Dolores Martos Pérez Literary Academies and Poetic Tournaments, Inmaculada Osuna Rodríguez Novels and Narratives, Shifra Armon Women Playwrights, Amy R. Williamsen SECTION IV: WOMEN IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE Public Poetry, María Carmen Marín Pina Spain's Women Humanists, Emilie L. Bergmann Women and Power, Nieves Romero-Díaz SECTION V: PRIVATE CIRCLES Didactic Treatises, Rosilie Hernández The Familial Lyric, Gwyn Fox Private Correspondence, Vanessa de Cruz Medina SECTION VI: WOMEN TRAVELERS Foundation Narratives, Darcy Donahue Transatlantic Religious, Sarah E. Owens Secular Women Writers in the New World (1543-1700), Rocío Quispe-Agnoli Transnational Exchanges, Nieves Baranda Leturio Index