Cognition and girlhood in shakespeare's world: rethinking female adolescence
Auteur :
Bicks, Caroline
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781108844215
Date de publication :
15 juil. 2021
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,8 x 2,7 cm
Poids :
587 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Mining a variety of genres from Shakespearean plays and medical texts to autobiographical writings, Bicks demonstrates how early moderns depicted female puberty as a transformative event that activated girls' cognitive faculties in dynamic ways, gifting them with the ability to invent, judge, and remember what others could or would not.