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Jennifer Higginbotham

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Description:The first full-length study of how the concept of the girl was constructed in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and drama. The Girlhood of ShakespeareOCOs 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 ShakespeareOCOs 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 womenOCOs autobiographies, this book argues that girlhood in ShakespeareOCOs England was both a time of life and a form of gender transgression. Key Features: . * Charts the emergence of the word girl into early modern English and its evolution from a gender-neutral term applied to both male and female children to one used only for female individuals. * Challenges the misconception that girls were largely absent from English Renaissance literature. * Offers a literary history of female child characters in Renaissance drama. * Features an examination of how women writers described their own girlhoods"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters: Gender Transgression, Adolescence (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture). To get started finding The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters: Gender Transgression, Adolescence (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The first full-length study of how the concept of the girl was constructed in sixteenth and seventeenth century literature and drama. The Girlhood of ShakespeareOCOs 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 ShakespeareOCOs 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 womenOCOs autobiographies, this book argues that girlhood in ShakespeareOCOs England was both a time of life and a form of gender transgression. Key Features: . * Charts the emergence of the word girl into early modern English and its evolution from a gender-neutral term applied to both male and female children to one used only for female individuals. * Challenges the misconception that girls were largely absent from English Renaissance literature. * Offers a literary history of female child characters in Renaissance drama. * Features an examination of how women writers described their own girlhoods"We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters: Gender Transgression, Adolescence (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture). To get started finding The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters: Gender Transgression, Adolescence (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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