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Probably the most successful realization of the feminist potential of the framed-novelle genre was accomplished by Spanish writer Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor. Her two collections, the Novelas amorosas y ejem-plares (1637) and its sequel, the Parte segunda del Sarao y entretenimiento honesto, popularly called the Desengaños amorosos (1647), remain—together with the Heptaméron, which was one of Zayas’s sources—the finest examples of the genre, and masterpieces in their own right.
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Edwin B. Place, “Maria de Zayas, an Outstanding Woman Writer of Seventeenth-Century Spain,” University of Colorado Studies 13 (1923): 10.
H. Patsy Boyer, Introduction to The Enchantments of Love (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), p. xxxvi.
María de Zayas, “Too Late for Disillusionment,” trans. Peter Cocozzella, in Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century, ed. Katharine M. Wilson and Frank J. Warnke (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989), p. 225;
Maria de Zayas, Parte segunda del Sarao y entretenimiento honesto [Desengaños amoro-sos], ed. Alicia Yllera (Madrid: Cátedra, 1983), pp. 254–55. Further references follow in the text.
Marguerite de Navarre, The Heptameron, ed. and trans. P. A. Chilton (London: Penguin, 1984), p. 371; L’Heptaméron, ed. M. François (Paris: Garnier, 1967), p. 278. Further references follow in the text.
Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor, A Shameful Revenge and Other Stories, trans. John Sturrock (London: Folio Society, 1963), p. 108; Maria de Zayas, Parte segunda, p. 374. Further references follow in the text.
M. M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination, ed. Michael Holquist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981), p. 272.
See Jacqueline Pearson, “History of The History of the Nun,” in Rereading Aphra Behn, ed. Heidi Hutner (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993).
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Donovan, J. (1999). The Women’s Framed-Novelle: The Spanish and English Traditions. In: Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405–1726. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-67512-8_4
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