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Shakespeare's heroines : characteristics of women : moral, poetical, and historical

"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."--BOOK JACKET
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Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ont., ©2005
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9781551113241, 9781459300996, 1551113244, 1459300998
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AcknowledgementsIntroductionAnna Murphy Jameson: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextShakespeare’s HeroinesAppendix A: Jameson’s Writing on Women, Work, and ActingFrom Sisters of Charity, Catholic and Protestant, Abroad and at Home (1855)From The Communion of Labour (1856)“Mrs. Siddons” in Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad (1834)Appendix B: Jameson’s CorrespondenceBessie Rayner Parkes, 1856-59Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1856Frances Anne Kemble, 1831-32Ottilie von Goethe, 1836Appendix C: Contemporary Reviews of Characteristics of WomenThe Monthly Review (1832)The Literary Gazette (1832)Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine (1833)Appendix D: Conduct BooksFrom Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Women of England:Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits (1939)From John Ruskin, “Of Queen’s Gardens” in Sesame and Lilies (1865)Appendix E: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Shakespeare CriticismFrom William Richardson, “On Shakespeare’s Imitation of Female Characters” in Essays on Shakespeare’s Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff and on his Imitation of Female Characters (1789)From William Hazlitt, Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays (1817)From Frances Anne Kemble, “Notes on Macbeth No. II.” in Notes upon Some of Shakespeare’s Plays (1882)Select Bibliography
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