Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters

Gender, Transgression, Adolescence

AvJennifer Higginbotham

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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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 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.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

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2027-02-28
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399574921

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Jennifer Higginbotham is Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University. She specialises in Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, feminist theory, and early modern women's writing, and her articles on gender and early modern literature have appeared in the journals Reformation and Modern Philology.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. ‘A wentche, a gyrle, a Damsell’: Defining Early Modern Girlhood; 2. Roaring Girls and Unruly Women: Producing Femininities; 3. Female Infants and the Engendering of Humanity; 4. Where are the Girls in English Renaissance Drama?; 5. Voicing Girlhood: Women’s Life Writing and Narratives of Childhood; Epilogue: MassProduced Languages and the End of Touristic Choices; Bibliography.

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