Shakespeare's HeroinesBroadview Press, 26.09.2005 - 464 Seiten First published in 1832, Shakespeare’s Heroines is a unique hybrid of Shakespeare criticism, women’s rights activism, and conduct literature. Jameson’s collection of readings of female characters includes praise for unexpected role models as varied as Portia, Cleopatra, and Lady Macbeth; her interpretations of these and other characters portray intellect, passion, political ambition, and eroticism as acceptable aspects of women’s behaviour. This inventive work of literary criticism addresses the problems of women’s education and participation in public life while also providing insightful, original, and entertaining readings of Shakespeare’s women. This Broadview Edition includes a critical introduction that places Shakespeare’s Heroines in the context of Jameson’s literary career and political life. Appendices include personal correspondence and other literary and political writings by Jameson, examples of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Shakespeare criticism, and selections from Victorian conduct books. |
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... Beatrice and Rosalind) Jameson discusses the difference between male and female intelligence: The essential and invariable distinction appears to me this: in men the intellectual faculties exist more self—poised and self— directed, more ...
... some pains to distinguish Portia's intellectual virtues from those of Beatrice, Isabella and Rosalind; each heroine embodies specific mental strengths and displays those strengths with fitting public acts. Unlike SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINES 25.
... Beatrice's friendship with Hero or Celia's “tenderness and sympathy” for Rosalind.Jameson stays vigilant to female relations even when they are not mutually beneficial, devoting considerable attention, for instance, to Cleopatra's ...
... Beatrice, among others,Jameson finds models forVictorian femi— ninity without relying on self—denial or female purity to keep women harmoniously placed in an ideal household. She finds models of femininity that rely on their virtuous ...
... Beatrice or Cleopatra.Just as Jameson was able to read those characters differ— ently, she was able to see the exemplary nature of the work and lives of Sarah Siddons, Frances Kemble, Adelaide Kemble, as well as other actresses, and to ...
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Jamesons Writing on Women Work and Acting | 380 |
Jamesons Correspondence | 409 |
Contemporary Reviews of Characteristics of Women | 419 |
Conduct Books | 437 |
Eighteenth and NineteenthCentury Shakespeare Criticism | 444 |
Select Bibliography | 463 |