Publications

Alison Weber

 

Books:

 

Teresa de Avila and the Rhetoric of Femininity.  Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990. Paperback edition, 1996.

 

Italian translation: Teresa d'Avila e la retorica della femminilità.  Florence: Le Lettere, 1993. 

 

Rpt. chapter I: “Little Women: Counter-Reformation Misogyny.” In The Counter Reformation. Blackwell Essential Readings in History. Ed. David M. Luebke. Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 1999. 143-162.

 

Guest edition:

 

Feminist Topics. Edited with an Introduction by Alison Weber. Special Issue of Journal of Hispanic Philology. Volume 13, Number 3 (1989) [published in 1990].

 

Edited translation:

 

For the Hour of Recreation by María de San José.  Introduction and notes by Alison Weber. Translation by Amanda Powell.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

 

Articles: 

 
  1. “Autobiografías por mandato: Ego Documents or Social Texts?” Forthcoming in Cultura escrita y sociedad.

 
  1. “El feminismo parcial de Ana de San Bartolomé.” El feminismo reivindicado: 1450-hoy. Ed. Lisa Vollendorf. Madrid: Icaria. Forthcoming 2005. [Trans. of “The Partial Feminism” no. 14]

 
  1. “Teaching Teresa in a Women Writers Course.” Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Avila and the Spanish Mystics. Ed. Alison Weber. New York: MLA. Forthcoming

 
  1. “María de San José: Saint Teresa’s Difficult Daughter.” Carmelite Studies. Forthcoming.

 
  1. “Saint Teresa, Micro-Manager.” In Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe. Ed. Cordula van Wyhe. Hants: Ashgate. Forthcoming

 
  1. “Teresa de Avila. La mística femenina.” In Historia de las mujeres en España y América Latina. Ed. Isabel Morant. Madrid: Cátedra. Forthcoming.

 
  1. “Locating Holiness in Early Modern Spain: Convents, Caves, and Houses.” In  Attending to Early Modern Women: Structures and Subjectivities. Ed. Joan Hartman and Adele Seeff. College Park: University of Maryland Press. Forthcoming.

 

  1. “Could Women Write Mystical Poetry?: The Literary Daughters of San Juan de la Cruz.” ‘En Desagravio de las damas’: Women Poets of Early Modern Spain. Ed. Julián Olivares and Elizabeth Boyd. Pegasus Press. Forthcoming.

 
  1. “Lope de Vega’s ‘Sacred Rhymes’: Conversion, Clientage, and the Performance of Masculinity.”  Publications of the Modern Language Association of America.  Forthcoming.

 
  1.  “Dear Daughter: Reform and Persuasion in Saint Teresa’s Letters to her Prioresses.” In Form and Persuasion in Women’s Informal Letters. 1500-1700 . Ed. Ann Crabb and Jane Couchman. Hants: Ashgate. Forthcoming.

 
  1. “Religious Writing in Early Modern Spain.” In The Cambridge History of  Spanish Literary History. Ed. David T. Gies. Cambridge UP. Forthcoming 2004.

 
  1. “The Three Lives of the Vida: The Uses of Convent Autobiography.” In Women and Texts and Authority in Early Modern Spain. Ed. Marta Vicente.  Hants: Ashgate, 2003. 107-125.

 
  1. “Father Gregorio Bolívar’s 1625 Report: A Vatican Source for the History of Early Virginia.” Edward L. Bond, Jan L. Perkowski, and Alison P. Weber. Translation by Alison Weber. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 110 (2002):69-86.

 
  1. “The Partial Feminism of Ana de San Bartolomé.”  In Recovering Spain’s Feminist Tradition.  Ed. Lisa Vollendorf.  New York: Publications of the Modern Language Association, 2001.  69-87.

 
  1. “Demonizing Ecstasy: Alonso de la Fuente and the alumbrados of Extremadura.” In The Mystical Gesture: Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Spiritual Culture in Honor of Mary E. Giles. Ed. Robert Boenig. Hants, U.K.: Ashgate Press, 2000. 147-165.

 
  1. "Spiritual Administration: Gender and Discernment in the Carmelite Reform." Sixteenth Century Journal  31.1 (2000): 127-50.

 
  1. “The Fortunes of Ecstasy: Teresa of Avila and the Carmelite Reform.” Harvard Divinity Bulletin 28.4 (1999): 127-150.

 
  1. Review Essay: “Recent Research on Women and Religion in Spanish.” Renaissance Quarterly 52 (1999): 197-206.

 
  1. "St. Teresa's Problematic Patrons." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 29.2 (1999): 357-379.

 
  1. "Teresa of Avila." Entry for The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. New York: Renaissance Society of America/ Scribners, 1999. 6:126-27.

 
  1. "The Ideologies of  Cervantine Irony: Liberalism, Postmodernism, and Beyond."   In Cervantes and his Postmodern Constituencies. Ed. Anne J. Cruz and Carroll B. Johnson. New York: Garland P, 1999. 218-234.

 
  1. "Celestina and the Discourses of Servitude."  Negotiating Past and Present: Studies in Spanish Literature for Javier Herrero.  Ed. David T. Gies.  Charlottesville, VA:  Rookwood Press, 1997. 127-144.

 
  1. "On the Margins of Ecstasy: María de San José as (Auto)biographer."  Journal of the Institute of Romances Studies 4 (1996): 251-268.

 
  1. "Pentimento:  The Parodic Text of La gitanilla." Hispanic Review 62 (1994): 59-75.

 
  1. "Between Ecstasy and Exorcism:  Religious Negotiation in Sixteenth-Century Spain."  Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 23 (1993): 221-34.

 
  1. "Santa Teresa de Jesús."  In Spanish Women Writers:  A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook.  Ed. Linda Gould Levine et al.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993. 484-494.

 
  1. "Saint Teresa, Demonologist."   In Culture and Control in Counter-Reformation Spain.  Ed. Anne J. Cruz and Mary Elizabeth Perry.  University of Minnesota Press.  Minneapolis, U of Minnesota P, 1992.  171-95.

 
  1. "Padres e hijas: una lectura intertextual de La historia del cautivo."  Actas del Segundo Coloquio Internacional de la Asociación de Cervantistas, Alcalá de Henares. Barcelona: Anthropos, 1991.  425-31. 

 
  1. "Baroque Mentalities"  (review article). Continuum 3 (1991): 100-105.

 
  1. "The Authority of the Baroque" (review article). Continuum 1 (1989):  263-68.

 
  1. “Feminist Topics.” Journal of Hispanic Philology 13 (1989): 185-195.

 
  1. "Teresa's `Delicious' Diminutives: Pragmatics and Style in Camino de perfección." Journal of Hispanic Philology 10 (1986): 211-27.

 
  1. "Don Quijote with Roque Guinart: The Case for an Ironic Reading."  Cervantes 6 (1986): 123-40.

 
  1. "The Paradoxes of Humility: Santa Teresa's Libro de la vida as Double Bind." Journal of Hispanic Philology 9 (1985): 211-30.

 
  1. "Tragic Reparation in Cervantes' El celoso extremeño."  Cervantes 4 (1984): 35-51.

 
  1. "La excentricidad y la norma en dos comedias de Ruiz de Alarcón."  In Actas del Sexto Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas.  Ed. Alan M. Gordon and Evelyn Rugg.  Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1980.  783-85.

 
  1. "Cuatro clases de narrativa picaresca."  In La picaresca: Orígenes, textos y estructuras.  Actas del primer congreso internacional sobre la picaresca.  Ed. Manuel Criado de Val.  Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1979.  13-18.

 
  1. "La ilustre fregona and the Barriers of Caste." Papers on Language and Literature 15 (1979): 73-81.

 
  1. "Hamartia in Reinar después de morir."  Bulletin of the Comediantes 28 (1976): 89-95.

 

Reviews:

 

 
  1. The Visionary Life of Madre Ana de San Agustín. Critical edition and introduction by Elizabeth Teresa Howe. Woodridge, Suffolk: Tamesis. 2004. Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. Forthcoming.

 
  1. Tras las huellas de Cervantes. Perfil inédito del autor del Quijote. By Rosa Rossi. Madrid: Trotta, 2000. Cervantes. Forthcoming.

 
  1. Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain. By Hilaire Kallendorf. Renaissance and Reformation. Forthcoming.

 
  1. The Cultural Labyrinth of María de Zayas by Marina Brownlee. Renaissance Quarterly 54 (2001):1606-1607.

 
  1. “Saint Teresa without Footnotes.” Review of  Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul  by Cathleen Medwick. Harvard Divinity Bulletin 8.2 (2001): 22-24.

 
  1. La segunda Celestina. By Agustín de Salazar y Torres. Ed. Thomas A O’Conner. Renaissance Quarterly 51 (1998): 229-230.

 
  1. Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance by Ignacio Navarrete.  Sixteenth-Century Studies 27 (1996): 617-618.

 
  1. Celestina's Brood:  Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literature  by Roberto González Echevarría.  La Corónica 24.2 (1996): 214-216. 

 
  1. Two Catechisms by Juan de Valdés  edited with an introduction by José C. Nieto.  Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1996): 399-400.

 
  1. Discovering the Comic in Don Quixote by Laura J. Gorfkle.  Cervantes 15 (1995): 101-103.

 
  1. God in La Mancha: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650 by Sara T. Nalle.  Renaissance Quarterly 47 (1994):  693-694.

 
  1. El sin par Sancho Panza: parodia y creación by Eduardo Urbina.  Romanic Review 89 (1994): 515-516.

 
  1. The Perception of Women in Spanish Theater of the Golden Age ed. by Anita K. Stoll and Dawn L. Smith.  Bulletin of the Comediantes 45 (1993): 155-57.

 
  1. Cervantine Journeys by Steven Hutchinson.  Journal of Hispanic Philology 17 (1992): 83-85.

 
  1. Lucrecia's Dreams by Richard Kagan.  Hispanic Review 59 (1992): 217-20.

 
  1. Visions in Exile:  The Body in Spanish Literature and Linguistics: 1500-1800 by Malcolm K. Read.  Journal of Hispanic Philology 15 (1991): 162-63. 

 
  1. Writing in the Margin by Paul Julian Smith.  Bulletin of the Comediantes  42 (1990): 222-24.

 
  1. Untold Sisters:  Hispanic Nuns in Their Own Works by Electa Arenal and Stacey Schlau.  Journal of Hispanic Philology 14 (1990): 190-93.

 
  1. The Antiheroine's Voice: Narrative Discourse and Transformations of the Picaresque by Edward H. Friedman.  Journal of Hispanic Philology 11 (1987): 273-75.

 
  1. Madness and Lust by Carroll B. Johnson.  Cervantes 5 (1985): 211-30.

 
  1. Alonso Castillo Solórzano by Alan Soons.  Bulletin of the Comediantes 32 (1980): 82-83.

 
  1. Literature as System by Claudio Guillén.  Comparative Literature Studies 11 (1974): 392-3.

 

Translations:

 

 
  1. Selected Stories by Olga Orozco in The Secret Weavers:  Stories of the Fantastic by Women of Argentina and Chile.  Ed. Marjorie Agosin.  Buffalo: White Pines Press, 1991.

 
  1. "The Museum of Futile Efforts" by Cristina Peri Rossi.  In Landscapes of a New Land.  Short Fiction by Latin American Women. Ed. Marjorie Agosin.  Buffalo: White Pine Press, 1989.