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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... sentiments; then she uses these qualities and sympathies on a larger scale, to cherish and purify society. But still the man and the woman must continue to share the work; there must be the communion oflabor in the large human family ...
... virtue within their own souls. Hence the strange anomalies of artificial society—girls of sixteen who are models of manner, miracles of prudence, marvels of learning, who sneer at sentiment, and laugh at the Juliets 22 INTRODUCTION.
Anna Murphy Jameson Cheri L. Larsen Hoeckley. learning, who sneer at sentiment, and laugh at the Juliets and the Imogens ForJameson, the shallow goal offemale education (an econom— ically successful marriage) leads to shallow women ...
... sentiment and perception, and his want of poetical faith.”Jameson's apparently more acute sentiment and stronger poetical faith offer original and compelling insights into frequently under—read female characters. Perhaps the most ...
... sentiment to which the attention is directly required, few like to interrupt the course ofthought, or undertake ajourney from the sofa or garden—seat to the library, to hunt out the volume, the play, the passage, for themselves. When ...
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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 |