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Record Nr.

UNISA996552349503316

Autore

Higginbotham Jennifer

Titolo

The girlhood of Shakespeare's sisters : gender, transgression, adolescence / / Jennifer Higginbotham [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh University Press, 2013

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-4744-2980-7

0-7486-8439-5

0-7486-5591-3

1-299-15478-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture

Classificazione

HI 3385

Disciplina

820.935234209031

Soggetti

Girls in literature

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Girls - Great Britain - Social conditions - 16th century

Girls - Great Britain - Social conditions - 17th century

Great Britain Civilization 16th century

Great Britain Civilization 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

'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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 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.