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The Politics and Poetics of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. By George Antony Thomas. [Women and Gender in the Early Modern World.] (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing. 2012. Pp. vii, 144. $114.95. ISBN 978-1-4094-37697.)
Research on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648/51-1695) continues to increase and produce innovative and provocative studies that uncover elements previously ignored. George Antony Thomas has written one of these studies. In The Politics and Poetics of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Thomas analyzes an aspect of Sor Juana's work that others have only touched on when searching for individual instances in which Sor Juana dedicated her writings to others-principally to New-Spanish vicereines. Thomas goes far beyond regularly cited verses and focuses on Sor Juana's "occasional works" that include epithalamia or celebratory wedding poems, epitaphs to commemorate deaths, triumphal arches, epinicia or triumphal odes, poems that accompany gifts, and birthday poems. Thomas depicts Sor Juana as a writer...