Between Desire and Passion

Teresa de Cartagena
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-21251-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 48, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 456 g

Reihe: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World

Teresa de Cartagena endured confinement as a nun, affliction as a deaf person, and isolation as an outcast, but she was finally able to dedicate herself to writing and to voice her suffering in her Arboleda de los enfermos. Her second treatise, Admiraçión operum Dey, offers a defense against her male detractors and demands recognition by men and her society arguing that women had the intellect to write. To illuminate Teresa's distinctiveness as an author and a woman, the book locates her place in a line of European women intellectuals, and presents an indispensible dialogue among female European authors of the early modern age. By tracing her predecessors’ literary and philosophical achievements, we can appreciate the multifaceted characteristics of Teresa’s writings.

Zielgruppe

All interested in interdisciplinary studies (medicine and literature, history, gender studies, religious studies, and disability studies), and anyone interested in the medieval and early modern age of Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kim, Yonsoo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.ix

Introduction Mapping Teresa de Cartagena amongst European Women Writers.1
1. Writing to Survive and Heal: Teresa de Cartagena’s Life and Works.11
2. Writing with Traditional Discourses.35
3. Writing to Alleviate and Understand: First Part of Arboleda de los enfermos (Grove of the Infirm).51
4. Writing to Instruct and Illuminate: Second Part of Arboleda de los enfermos (Grove of the Infirm).83
5. Writing to Give Voice: Defense of Women.107
6. Writing with Irony: Defense of Woman’s Voice and Discourse in Admiraçión operum Dey (Wonder at the Works of God).131

Appendix.159
Works Cited.163
Index.177

Über Autor(innen)

Kim, Yonsoo
Yonsoo Kim, Ph.D. (2006), Boston College, is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Purdue University. She has published a book, El saber femenino y el sufrimiento corporal. (Universidad de Córdoba Press, 2008), and articles on medicine and literature, and religious studies.