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Autore |
Higginbotham Jennifer |
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Titolo |
The girlhood of Shakespeare's sisters : gender, transgression, adolescence / / Jennifer Higginbotham |
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Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2013 |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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9781474429801 |
1474429807 |
9780748684397 |
0748684395 |
9780748655915 |
0748655913 |
9781299154780 |
1299154786 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture : ECSRC |
Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture |
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Disciplina |
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Literary Criticism / Shakespeare |
Literature - History and criticism |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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'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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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters argues for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system, challenging the widespread assumption that the category of the 'girl' played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. Girl characters appeared in a variety of texts, from |
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female infants in Shakespeare's late romances to little children in Tudor interludes to adult 'roaring girls' in city comedies. Drawing from a variety of print and manuscript sources, including early modern drama, dictionaries, midwifery manuals, and women's autobiographies, this book argues that girlhood in Shakespeare's England was both a time of life and a form of gender transgression. |
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