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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... live separately for most of their marriage. Over the neXt decade, Anna wrote profusely, still supporting her parents and sisters. She collaborated with her father on Beauties of the Court of King Charles (1831), creat— ing teXt to ...
... live a life of restricted femininity, however, and traveled extensively, mainly gathering research for her ambitious series, Sacred and Legendary Art. One notable exception to that motivation for travel was a stay in Canada during 1836 ...
... lives,was less supportive over the controversies raised by Gaskell's Life, but letters reveal that the two women remained on cordial terms with respect to each other's work, and Jameson saw the important impact Gaskell's biography would ...
... lives to provide them a safe haven from the harshness of life outside the home. In her widely-read early nineteenth—century series The Women ofEngland, Sarah Stickney Ellis describes women's roles as private, in the home, 18 INTRODUCTION.
... 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 also focused on the appropriate attitudes and emotions that ...
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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 |