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The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters: Gender, Transgression, Adolescence (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture)
Jennif Higginbotham
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Hardcover. Offers a study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture. This title provides the study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the 'girl'. It challenges the misconception that girls were largely absent from English Renaissance literature. Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 b&w illustration. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 163 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 512.
This is 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 ... Read more
This is 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748655908
SKU
V9780748655908
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About Jennif Higginbotham
Jennifer Higginbotham is Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University.
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