The Youth of Early Modern Women

(Amsterdam University Press, 2018)
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Through fifteen essays that work from a rich array of primary sources, this collection makes the novel claim that early modern European women, like men, had a youth. European culture recognized that, between childhood and full adulthood, early modern women experienced distinctive physiological, social, and psychological transformations. Drawing on two mutually shaped layers of inquiry — cultural constructions of youth and lived experiences — these essays exploit a wide variety of sources, including literary and autobiographical works, conduct literature, judicial and asylum records, drawings, and material culture. The geographical and temporal ranges traverse England, Ireland, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, and Mexico from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. This volume brings fresh attention to representations of female youth, their own life writings, young women’s training for adulthood, courtship, and the emergent sexual lives of young unmarried women.

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Author

Margaret Reeves is an associate professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan), and an Associate Member of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program. Her research focuses on early modern literature, and in particular, on women’s writing, children’s literature, and politically engaged literature of the seventeenth century. She is also interested in how historical narratives shape our understanding of the emergence of literary genres, such as the novel and children’s books. Her recent projects include research on the social and cultural significance of ideas of childhood and youth in seventeenth-century English literature, and on the history of children’s literature from the early modern period to the present.

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Hardback ISBN: 9789462984325
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