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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... husband,Jameson expanded and deepened her already considerable circle of liter— ary and artistic friends. While careful to maintain standards of female propriety,Jameson took full advantage of the relative free— domVictorian society ...
... husband there with the faint hope of reconciling. Domestically, she enjoyed only ambiguous success for the journey. Anna returned with a written agreement to a formal, life—long separation. Professionally, however, she reaped some gain ...
... husbands, sons, fathers and brothers who go out into public lives in commerce, the church and politics. Ellis' popular series on domestic conduct educated women in the activities of maintaining a comfortable middle—class household; it ...
... most engage Jameson's intellec— tual and creative energies are the ones who cross—dress, commit murder and adultery, divorce their unworthy husbands, and glory in sassy repartee. In other words, at first impression Jameson's 26 ...
... husband to butcher a poor old king.” Lady Macbeth, in other words, is not created as purely evil, she has simply suffered from a history of bad reading. In fact,Jameson's representation of the entire Macbeth house— hold often strikingly ...
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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 |