Shakespeare's HeroinesBroadview Press, 26 de set. 2005 - 464 pàgines 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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... natural” virtue, most writ— ers of domestic ideology continually rely on the presence of these virtues in all middle—class English women. The conviction that women have natural virtues because of their femininity requires understanding ...
... nature” that marks at least one “essential and invariable distinction” between men's and women's characters. In this case, while Jameson opens with the term “essential,” the context of the passage suggests her view that female intellect ...
... 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.
... nature of their activity is particularly important for Jameson as she argues that women ought to move out into public action.Jameson differs from writers who insist on main— taining the spatial division in women's and men's labor (women ...
... nature it has opened to me, in the beau— tiful and soothing images it has placed before me, in the exercise and improvement of my own faculties, I have already been repaid: if praise or profit come beside, they come as a surplus. I ...
Continguts
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 |