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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... , Cambridge University See works by Kimberly Van Esveld Adams,Judith Johnston, and Tricia Lootens in the Select Bibliography. on his better remembered one. The opening dialogue of Characteristics. SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINES I7.
Anna Murphy Jameson Cheri L. Larsen Hoeckley. on his better remembered one. The opening dialogue of Characteristics most pointedly demonstratesJameson's investment in female education, employ— ment and conduct. In that dialogue, Alda ...
... better way—for us at least. Jameson further illustrates the superiority and safety of fiction as moral education for women with an extended simile. Alda speaks of passion contemplated through the imagination as like light shin— ing ...
... better express her sense of both than by justifying, as far as it is in her power, the cordial and flattering tone of all the public criticisms. It is to the great name of SHAKESPEARE, that a bond of sympathy among all who speak his ...
... better? ALDA. Heaven forbid! else I were only fit for the next lunatic asylum.Vanity run mad never conceived such an impossible idea. MEDON. Then, in few words, what is the subject, and what the object ofyour book? ALDA. I have ...
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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 |