WOMEN POETS' JOURNEY TO PARNASSUS. LITERARY TRADITION AND GENDER DIFFERENCE IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SPANISH POETRY

Abstract

The return to classical literary subjects, such as the writer’s journey to Mount Parnassus, is one of the strategies shared by three Spanish women poets in the last decades of the XVIIIth century and the beginning of the XIXth century: Clara Jara de Soto, Gertrudis de Hore and María Rosa de Gálvez. This paper focuses on the study of the theme mentioned above, the writer’s journey to Parnassus, and its different presentations in the poems written by these three authors. The aim of our study is to show how these women poets express through their verses the awareness of their exceptionality and their marginality within the literary field at the turn of the century.