The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters : : Gender, Transgression, Adolescence / / Jennifer Higginbotham.
The first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and cultureJennifer 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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 1 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 ‘A wentche, a gyrle, a Damsell’: Defi ning Early Modern Girlhood
- Chapter 2 Roaring Girls and Unruly Women: Producing Femininities
- Chapter 3 Female Infants and the Engendering of Humanity
- Chapter 4 Where Are the Girls in English Renaissance Drama?
- Chapter 5 Voicing Girlhood: Women’s Life Writing and Narratives of Childhood
- Epilogue: Mass-Produced Languages and the End of Touristic Choices
- Bibliography
- Index