Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World

Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World

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Bicks Caroline
Cambridge University Press
EAN: 9781108844215
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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 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.
EAN 9781108844215
ISBN 1108844219
Binding Hardback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Publication date July 15, 2021
Pages 300
Language English
Dimensions 235 x 158 x 27
Country United Kingdom
Readership Tertiary Education
Authors Bicks Caroline
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises
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