Hers Ancient and Modern

Hers Ancient and Modern is a pioneering contribution to the study of women's writing in Spain and Brazil.From medieval Spanish authors Constanza de Castilla and Teresa de Cartagena to Teresa de �vila in the sixteenth century, Mar�a de Zayas in the seventeenth, and Ana Mar�a Matute, Esther Tusquets, Carmen Mart�n Gaite and Cristina Fern�ndez in the twentieth, these essays do full justice to the long tradition of quality women's writing in Spain. Complemented by fine studies on contemporary Spanish poet Mar�a Sanz and leading Brazilian authors Clarice Lispector and Lygia Fagundes Telles, as well as a survey of women novelists included in the Hispanic canon in the United States in the mid-1990s (Carmen Laforet, Mart�n Gaite and Matute), the book points the way to the full reinstatement of these authors and demonstrates the value of studying women's writing across geographical and chronological boundaries.