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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2021
Print publication year:
2021
Online ISBN:
9781108933919
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108933919
Subjects:
Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature
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Book description

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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‘… original and imaginative book … Recommended.’

D. Pesta Source: Choice Connect

‘… Cognition and Girlhood has started a conversation that deserves to be continued.’

Ursula A. Potter Source: Parergon

‘A pioneering study of early modern girls, specifically their minds and mental processes.’

Jennifer Higginbotham Source: Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

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