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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... women might approach Imogen's stellar position by minding her exemplary behavior in trying circumstances. Jameson's most surprising example ofVictorian femininity is undoubtedly Lady Macbeth. She argues that Lady Macbeth serves a useful ...
... Macbeth's harmonious hearth, but Jameson looks beyond that event to remind her readers that they watch Lady Macbeth “during the rest ofthe play, occupied in supporting the nervous weakness and sustaining the fortitude of her husband ...
... Lady Macbeth, as in Constance, Portia, Cleopatra,Juliet and Beatrice, among others,Jameson finds models forVictorian femi— ninity without relying on self—denial or female purity to keep women harmoniously placed in an ideal household ...
... Lady Macbeth in a new realm of Shakespeare studies. The photographer Julia Margaret Cameron's series on Shakespeare's characters also shows the influence ofJameson's attention to a spectrum of female virtues. Cameron, in fact, was ...
... Lady Macbeth till she should be able to illustrate it by the impersonation and commentary of that grand and gifted actress; but the task having fallen into other hands, the analysis of the character has been almost entirely re—written ...
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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 |