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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... Poets (1829) and Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns (1831). The collected biography, a popular genre withVictorian women writ— ers and readers, would become a trademark of her literary career, allowing her to weave deft comments on ...
... poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, began in 1834.Jameson's relationship with Lady Byron was one of many passionate female friendships in Jameson's life, and it further encouraged her already rigorous and practical concern for improving ...
... poets, with Adelaide Procter's poems appearing most frequently. All the while, the Langham Place coterie—especially ... poetry collected to display the technical skill of the Langham Place female press: Among the contributions to this ...
... poet. Through Ottilie,Jameson was received into a large circle of German writers, actresses and drama critics, including Johan Tieck, all of whom welcomed the author of Characteristics ofI/Vomen (which was translated into German in 1834) ...
... poetry, conduct manu— als, the popular press, the visual arts, theatre, sermons, and Shakespeare criticism, all made contributions to the work of Victorian domestic ideology. The proliferation of domestic texts in the early nineteenth ...
Contenido
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 |