Shakespeare's HeroinesBroadview Press, 2005 M09 26 - 464 páginas 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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... passion is as beautiful as light through a prism; its destructive nature results only from forcing it in a few, concentrated first—hand adventures with real consequences. In Jameson's view, the moral tendencies of domestic 24 INTRODUCTION.
... hands. Conspiracy to murder one's guests flaws the tableau of Macbeth's harmonious hearth, but Jameson looks beyond that event to remind her readers that they watch Lady Macbeth “during the rest ofthe play, occupied in supporting the ...
... hands, the analysis of the character has been almost entirely re—written, as at first conceived, or rather restored to its original form. CONTENTS VOL. I Introduction ....................................................... ..47 ...
... hand murders her fame, That wrongs the praise ofwomen; that dares write Libels on saints or with foul ink requite The milk they lent us. Yours was the nobler birth For you from man were made—man but of earth— The son of dust. ALDA ...
... hand accusation against me, and not attend to my defense? MEDON. Well,I will be serious. ALDA. Do so, and let us talk like reasonable beings. MEDON. Then tell me (as a reasonable woman, you will not be affronted with the question), do ...
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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 |