‘Las ciencias curiosas’: Curiosity, studiousness, and the new philosophy in the Carta de Sor Filotea de la Cruz and the Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz

This article analyses the presence of the discourse of curiosity in Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz’s Carta de Sor Filotea (1690) and Sor Juana’s Respuesta a Sor Filotea (1691), an aspect of the texts that scholars have overlooked until now. It discusses the conflicting meanings each writer ascribes...

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Main Author: Brooke, A
Format: Journal article
Published: Liverpool University Press 2017