The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters Gender, Transgression, Adolescence

• Tác giả: Jennifer Higginbotham
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0748655908
• ISBN-13: 978-1474429801
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 820.935234209031 English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures
• Thông tin xuất bản: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (x, 225 pages.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 196077
• Chủ đề: 1. English literature--History and criticism--Early modern, 1500-1700; 2. Girls--Social conditions--16th century--Great Britain; 3. Girls--Social conditions--17th century--Great Britain; 4. Girls in literature

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

Tóm tắt

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'.