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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... speaking as means of activism, and probably of income. Apparently unhappy with the results, and aware of her decreasing physical stamina, Jameson only delivered these two lectures. Instead of developing a career from behind the podium ...
... speaking about books.Jameson's discussion of Siddons' conversational style illustrates both the intellectual depth Jameson celebrates in Siddons and the discrepancy between Jameson's understanding of how reading makes a woman attractive ...
... speaking she abhorred; she cared not to shine in general conversation. Like some majestic 'Argosie,' bearing freight of precious metal, she was a—ground and cumbrous and motion— less among the shallows of common life; but set her upon ...
... speak his language, and to the subject of the work, not to its own merits, that she attributes the success it has met with,—success the more delightful, because, in truth, it was from the very first so entirely unlooked for, as to be a ...
... speaking as one reasonable being to another) choose such a threadbare subject? ALDA. What do you mean? MEDON. I presume you have written a book to maintain the superiority of your sex over ours; for so Ijudge by the names at the heads ...
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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 |