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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... tion of plays written by the Princess of Saxony. During the late 1840s and 1850s, Jameson's studies in art history prompted extended stays in Italy where she became a frequent participant in the thrivingVictorian expatriate commu— nity ...
... tion to her series for TheAthenaeum, she produced many shorter essays for the London periodical press on women and on art. Those brief essays were augmented, joined with other essays and reprinted in her works Visits and Sleetches at ...
... tion and learning to engage in both the domestic realm and the world beyond the home.Jameson is adamant that women need this moral training; their essential natures incline women toward good, but those natural virtues still require ...
... tion” because she has “rather chosen to illustrate certain positions by examples, and leave [her] readers to deduce the moral themselves, and draw their own inferences.” Rather than leading young women to imperfect goals, lecturing at ...
... tion in the tradition of Shakespeare criticism. Her footnotes make clear her broad awareness of the critical tradition;Jameson quotes from and refers to Augustus von Schlegel, Samuel Johnson, William Richardson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...
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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 |