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

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' played...

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Autor Principal: Higginbotham, Jennifer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
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Summary: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' played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. And she demonstrates that girl characters appeared in a variety of texts, from female infants in Shakespeare's late romances to little children in Tudor interludes to adult 'roaring girls' in city comedies. This monograph provides the first book-length study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the 'girl'.
descrición da copia:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Descrición Física:1 online resource (240 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-219) and index.
ISBN:9781474429801
Acceso:Open Access