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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�...
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oapen-20.500.12657-307762023-04-12T09:21:39Z The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters Higginbotham, Jennifer Literature girls girlhood Renaissance Early Modern England sexuality Shakespeare Femininity childhood women writers London William Shakespeare 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 study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the 'girl'. 2018-01-24 23:55 2017-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-24 03:00:27 2020-04-01T13:12:49Z 2020-04-01T13:12:49Z 2013 book 642726 OCN: 828490438 9780748655908 9780748655939 9780748655922 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30776 eng Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International 642726.pdf Edinburgh University Press 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748655908.001.0001 100857 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748655908.001.0001 2a191404-86cd-479e-afc8-ff2b8d611a94 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780748655908 9780748655939 9780748655922 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 100857 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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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 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 study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the 'girl'. |
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