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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 88
... woman over a single one—travelling, visiting, attending public lectures and salons. This freedom of movement paralleled an emotional freedom that allowed Jameson to develop several intense relationships with women whose ideas and ...
... Woman'sjourhal, a periodical dedicated to women's issues and to the publication of sympathetic poets, with Adelaide Procter's poems appearing most frequently. All the while, the Langham Place coterie—especially Bessie Rayner Parkes the ...
... woman; she begins by being the nurse, the teacher, the cherisher ofher home, through her greater tenderness and purer moral sentiments; then she uses these qualities and sympathies on a larger scale, to cherish and purify society. But ...
... Woman's journal, to remember their commitments to women's issues, but to keep men involved in their practical projects, encouraging the women on staff to do things with taste and “get the men” on their side.I Through her later life ...
... woman,” not the heroine or the character, making distinct her attention to standards of nineteenth-century femininity to respond to moral character, rather than an attention to aesthetic values to judge fictional character.Jameson ...
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 |