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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... King Charles (1831), creat— ing teXt to accompany a series of etchings for which he had invested considerable resources without securing a buyer. She paved the way for the popularity of Court Beauties with two previous collected ...
... king.” Lady Macbeth, in other words, is not created as purely evil, she has simply suffered from a history of bad reading. In fact,Jameson's representation of the entire Macbeth house— hold often strikingly recalls vignettes ofVictorian ...
... — tive communion lies at the heart of the play's tragedy and leads to all other tragic effects, oversimplified in the perception that a woman behaved monstrously or “butchered a poor old king.” In SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINES 29.
... king.” In 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 ...
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Inhalt
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 |