The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters : Gender, Transgression, Adolescence /

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The first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture. Jennifer Higginbotham makes a persuasive case for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system. She challenges the widespread assumption that the category of the 'girl�...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Higginbotham, Jennifer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Colección:Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Girls > Great Britain > Social conditions > 17th century.
Girls > Great Britain > Social conditions > 16th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Girls in literature.
Great Britain > Civilization > 17th century.
Great Britain > Civilization > 16th century.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 'A wentche, a gyrle, a damsell' : defining early modern girlhood
  • Roaring girls and unruly women : producing femininities
  • Female infants and the engendering of humanity
  • Where are the girls in English renaissance drama?
  • Voicing girlhood : women's life writing and narratives of childhood
  • Epilogue : mass-produced languages and the end of touristic choices.

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