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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Anna Murphy Jameson Cheri L. Larsen Hoeckley. SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINES Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical Anna Murphy Jameson edited by Cheri L. Larsen Hoedeley broadvieW editions © 2005 Cheri L. Larsen Hoeckley. All ...
... Heroines. Through her friendship with the Procters,Jameson became part of another circle of younger women who would benefit from Jameson's intellectual labor. She began to encourage the young female writers and activists who gathered ...
... heroines. According to Fanny Kemble, the Sisters of Charity and Communion of Labour lectures were Jameson's experiment to try the strength of her voice for public speaking as means of activism, and probably of income. Apparently unhappy ...
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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 |