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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... 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 consistently misog— ynist Saturday Review chided Jameson for leading a “petticoat ...
... wife Jane she predictably raised the ire of the cantankerous Thomas Carlyle, though the three seem to have settled into a mutually pleasing acquaintanceship later on. Her relationship with novelist Elizabeth Gaskell was less turbulent ...
... wives and mothers of the perils their families face. Though badly managed homes can appar— ently deprive a young woman of her “natural” virtue, most writ— ers of domestic ideology continually rely on the presence of these virtues in all ...
... , single mothers and estranged wives, exploring areas of the Canadian wilderness where no European woman had ever travelled, publicly challenging British marriage and property laws, travelling across the Continent SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINES 21.
... wife of the Scottish thane 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 ...
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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 |