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Sonia Pérez-Villanueva is assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at Lesley University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Catalina de Erauso and Her Context
Chapter 2: History of Reception and Criticism
Chapter 3: Autobiographical Parameters and Classification
Chapter 4: Vida y Sucesos and the Picaresque
Chapter 5: Vida y Sucesos and the Chronicles
Chapter 6: Vida y Sucesos and Soldiers’ Narratives
Chapter 7: The Autobiographical Status of Vida y Sucesos
Afterword
Bibliography
Carefully and methodically the author builds a clear set of comparisons to support the central claim contained in her research. . . .Throughout, Pérez-Villanueva’s arguments and analysis are well researched and strongly supported by textual evidence. . . .Pérez-Villanueva’s work is well written, researched, and argued.
— Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Pérez-Villanueva’s scholarship advances appreciation of the pivotal role of Catalina de Erauso’s narrative, and of first-person singular narratives from early modern Spain, in our understanding of autobiography. . . .Pérez-Villanueva’s critical framework for discussing autobiography as a genre and her detailed study of one the Early Modern world’s most fascinating female figures will be of interest to students of genre, history and cultural studies and are likely to provoke further interest in the study of early modern women’s writing.
— Letras Femeninas