Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World : Rethinking Female Adolescence
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1108844219
ISBN-13
9781108844215
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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GB
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GB
Publication Date
Jul 15th, 2021
Print length
300 Pages
Weight
598 grams
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15.90 x 23.50 x 2.60 cms
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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.
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 presumption that early moderns viewed all female cognition as passive or pathological, demonstrating instead that girls'' changing adolescent brains were lightning rods for some of the period''s most vital debates about the body and soul, faith and salvation, science and nature, and the place and agency of human perception in the midst of it all.
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