Studies Womens Poetry Golden Age: En Desagravio De Las Damas( Series - Monografas A )

This collection of fourteen scholarly essays on women's poetry from Spain's early modern period shows that women did indeed have a Golden Age, and that they were significant cultural actors in the realms of poetic production. The studies of secular verse demonstrate how female poets of this period devised strategies to confront the dominant masculine poetic discourse, while the essays on sacred poetry explore the multiple manifestations of female piety and mysticism. The women's words are brought to life and modern readers helped to understand the socio-cultural, interpersonal, and aesthetic components of the poets' oeuvre. The volume, a companion to JuliAn Olivares' and Elizabeth Boyce's revised anthology "Tras el espejo la musa escribe": LA-rica femenina de los Siglos de Oro, constitutes an authoritative critical enterprise focused on the recuperation of the female literary voice, and marks an important step forward in the battle to include women's writing as part of Spain's literary canon. JULIN OLIVARES is Professor of Spanish at the University of Houston and editor of CalA-ope, Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry.

The collection comprises 14 essays by eminent feminist scholars of the Spanish Early Modern Period. The studies are in two categories: secular and sacred poetry. Those in the first category demonstrate how these female poets devised strategies to confront the dominant masculine poetic discourse, for the editor "the poetics of the prosaic." With regard to religious verse, the problem was the obverse. If the female writers of secular love poetry had to negotiate a masculine discourse, female religious poets dealt in a discourse already largely "feminized" by men. The studies in this category explore the multiple manifestations of female piety and mysticism. JULIN OLIVARES is Professor of Spanish at the University of Houston and editor of CalA-ope, Journal of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry.