Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World
Rethinking Female Adolescence
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- Author: Caroline Bicks, University of Maine, Orono
- Date Published: July 2023
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108928717
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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.
Read more- Provides new readings of Shakespeare's girls that make Shakespeare relevant to current debates about female empowerment
- Gives little-known examples of how early moderns depicted the gendered changes to the brain at puberty
- Includes a chapter on the rarely discussed autobiographical writings of Catholic pioneer Mary Ward and extensive readings of two rarely studied accounts of Mary Glover's possession
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'… original and imaginative book … Recommended.' D. Pesta, Choice Connect
See more reviews'… Cognition and Girlhood has started a conversation that deserves to be continued.' Ursula A. Potter, Parergon
'A pioneering study of early modern girls, specifically their minds and mental processes.' Jennifer Higginbotham, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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- Date Published: July 2023
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108928717
- length: 306 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. 'A spectacle to men and angells': Juliet Capulet and the case of Mary Glover
2. 'Imagination helps me': liberating brainwork in Comus, Othello, and The Two Noble Kinsmen
3. 'The progresse of an art': daughters and the invention of new knowledges
4. 'If I should tell / My history': memory, trauma, and testimony in Pericles and Hamlet
5. 'Put on the minde': cognitive play in Gallathea, The Winter's Tale, and The Convent of Pleasure
6. 'From thirteene Yeares … resolved to serve God': Mary Ward's adolescent brainwork.
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