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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' played...

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Main Author: Higginbotham, Jennifer
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
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Table of Contents:
  • '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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