Cognition and girlhood in shakespeare's world: rethinking female adolescence
Auteur :
Bicks, Caroline
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9781108928717
Date de publication :
7 juin 2023
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,1 x 1,6 cm
Poids :
470 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
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.