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

• Autore: Higginbotham Jennifer
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh University Press, 2013; Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.935234209031
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Civilization 16th century; Great Britain Civilization 17th century
• Soggetto non controllato: Literature; girls; girlhood; Renaissance; Early Modern England; sexuality; Shakespeare; Femininity; childhood; women writers; London; William Shakespeare
• Classificazione: HI 3385
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The girlhood of Shakespeare's sisters
• ISBN: 1-4744-2980-7; 0-7486-8439-5; 0-7486-5591-3; 1-299-15478-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996552349503316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Edinburgh critical studies in Renaissance culture.