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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... become a trademark of her literary career, allowing her to weave deft comments on the position of early Victorian women into general, and often incisive, vignettes on historical women.]ameson's attentiveness to divorced women, to single ...
... become known as The Langham Place Circle, earning that title by collaborating from offices in Langham Place on a variety of women's rights projects: reform of marriage and property law; expansion of opportunities for female employment ...
... become known as an outspoken advocate on women and work, female education, and wives' property rights. Not all Victorians were as grateful for her public voice as were the women of Langham Place; only a few years earlier, the ...
... becomes evident when she protests against a critical tradition that has fallen to “the commonplace idea [that] Lady Macbeth, though endowed with the rarest powers, the loftiest energies, and the profoundest affec— tions, is nothing but ...
... become domestic conversations in this critic's hands. Conspiracy to murder one's guests flaws the tableau of Macbeth's harmonious hearth, but Jameson looks beyond that event to remind her readers that they watch Lady Macbeth “during the ...
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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 |