ABSTRACT
The reception history of Sor Juana’s life and work is surprising. Praised by some and criticized by others, the Hieronymite nun captured the attention of her contemporaries and of intellectuals in the centuries that followed. Her fame – because of her life and work – had no geographic or temporal borders. Discovering what succeeding generations saw in Sor Juana, how they read her, what they praised, what they critiqued, which ideology they used to view her, is a fascinating lesson in reception history, and especially in reading baroque discourse.
