Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World: Rethinking Female Adolescence

by Caroline Bicks

Book Overview

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"