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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... young female writers and activists who gathered around the Procters' daughter Adelaide, including Bessie Rayner Parkes, Barbara Leigh Smith, Matilda Hayes, and Anna Mary Howitt. These protegées ofJameson's would become known as The ...
... young woman of her “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 ...
... young women to value nothing higher than attracting the most marriageable young men.Jameson calls the practice “the most pernicious, the most mistaken, the most far—reaching in its miser— able and mischievous effects, that ever ...
... Young female readers can explore the range of human emotion and passion without 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 ...
... young women to imperfect goals, lecturing at them from abstract educational treatises, or leaving them to morally dangerous adventure without any guidance,Jameson offers a program of female education through empathetic encounters with ...
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 |