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- Water Lilies: An Anthology of Spanish Women Writers from the Fifteenth through the Nineteenth Century
- Book
- 1995
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
summary
A dazzling sampler, Water Lilies brings to light a rich and until now largely invisible version of Spanish literary history. These hard-to-find works, most translated for the first time, are printed on facing pages in Spanish and English and located within a critical, biographical, and historical overview.
Here are five centuries of writing by Spanish women, the unknown recovered from obscurity, the well-known seen as they rarely have been-in the context of a women’s literary history. Some of these writers, like Rosalía de Castro in “The Bluestockings” and Teresa de Cartagena in Wonder at the Work of God, question the relationship between the woman writer and the act of writing. Some, like the poet Carolina Coronado in “The Twin Geniuses: Sappho and Saint Teresa of Jesus,” overtly seek a literary tradition. Others, like Saint Teresa in her Life and Luisa Sigea in her poetry, provide touchstones for women in search of such a tradition.
Legends and stories of women’s friendships, the inconstancy of men, and the love of God; Spain’s first autobiographical text; secular and religious poetry from medieval through recent times; an excerpt from one of the few chivalresque novels written by a woman; a full-length Golden Age comedia: this is the wide range of works Water Lilies comprises. Brought together for the first time, the writers articulate their resistance to, and their complicity in, a literary history that, until now, has tried to exclude them.
Here are five centuries of writing by Spanish women, the unknown recovered from obscurity, the well-known seen as they rarely have been-in the context of a women’s literary history. Some of these writers, like Rosalía de Castro in “The Bluestockings” and Teresa de Cartagena in Wonder at the Work of God, question the relationship between the woman writer and the act of writing. Some, like the poet Carolina Coronado in “The Twin Geniuses: Sappho and Saint Teresa of Jesus,” overtly seek a literary tradition. Others, like Saint Teresa in her Life and Luisa Sigea in her poetry, provide touchstones for women in search of such a tradition.
Legends and stories of women’s friendships, the inconstancy of men, and the love of God; Spain’s first autobiographical text; secular and religious poetry from medieval through recent times; an excerpt from one of the few chivalresque novels written by a woman; a full-length Golden Age comedia: this is the wide range of works Water Lilies comprises. Brought together for the first time, the writers articulate their resistance to, and their complicity in, a literary history that, until now, has tried to exclude them.
Table of Contents
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- Water lily
- pp. vii-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- A Note on Spanish Verse Form
- pp. 15-16
- The Fifteenth Century
- Leonor López de Córdoba
- pp. 19-32
- Florencia Pinar
- pp. 33-36
- Teresa de Cartagena
- pp. 37-54
- The Sixteenth Century
- Saint Teresa of Ávila
- pp. 57-77
- Luisa Sigea
- pp. 78-83
- Beatriz Bernal
- pp. 84-119
- Sor María de la Antigua
- pp. 120-130
- The Seventeenth Century
- Leonor de la Cueva y Silva
- pp. 133-142
- María de Zayas y Sotomayor
- pp. 143-201
- Ana Caro Mallén de Soto
- pp. 202-348
- Sor Marcela de San Félix
- pp. 349-370
- Sor María de Santa Isabel (Marcia Belisarda)
- pp. 371-382
- Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán
- pp. 383-388
- The Eighteenth Century
- María Gertrudis Hore
- pp. 391-403
- Margarita Hicky y Pellizoni
- pp. 404-412
- The Nineteenth Century
- Fernán Caballero
- pp. 415-431
- Carolina Coronado
- pp. 432-455
- Rosalía de Castro
- pp. 456-477
- Emilia Pardo Bazán
- pp. 478-492
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816683796
Related ISBN(s)
9780816619467
MARC Record
OCLC
191934208
Pages
520
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No