Shakespeare's HeroinesBroadview Press, 2005/09/26 - 464 ページ 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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... leaving Canada, and was rededicated to her friend Fanny Kemble, who had married an American. Anna left Canada and never saw her husband again, nor did she receive significant economic support from him. She contin— ued a life of motion ...
... leaving the security ofa mother's watchful eye, or a father's home, and they can vicariously encounter the consequences ofvanity and shallowness from the same havens. Although she is always aware of the public perfor— mative element of ...
... leave [her] readers to deduce the moral themselves, and draw their own inferences.” Rather than leading young women to imperfect goals, lecturing at them from abstract educational treatises, or leaving them to morally dangerous ...
... leave Jameson bored. Indeed, her readings of Shakespeare's heroines reveal that political ambition, intellectual activity, displays of passion, sharp—tongued conversation and erotic indulgence all fall into her catalogue of acceptable ...
... leaves her readers with the sense that when the woman of the house advised murder, the man should have had a plan that bested hers. In describing how readers come to a misguided horror of the play, Jameson chooses a phrasing that is ...
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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 |