Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World: Rethinking Female Adolescence
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This groundbreaking study of girlhood and cognition argues that early moderns depicted female puberty as a transformative event that activated girls' brains in dynamic ways. Mining a variety of genres from Shakespearean plays and medical texts to autobiographical writings, Caroline Bicks shows how 'the change of fourteen years' seemed to gift girls with the ability to invent, judge, and remember what others could or would not. Bicks challenges the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1108928714
ISBN13:9781108928717
Release Date:July 2023
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:306 Pages
Weight:0.91 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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