Shakespeare's HeroinesBroadview Press, 26. 9. 2005 - 464 strán (strany) 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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... ideas about women and art that would reverberate through her careers as writer and activist, while strengthening some themes that had already played into her work. She was born Anna Brownwell Murphy in Dublin, on 19 May 1794 and ...
... ideas and actions shaped her intellectual life. A deep and often turbulent attachment to Lady Byron, widow of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, began in 1834.Jameson's relationship with Lady Byron was one of many passionate female ...
... ideas about gender and labour that would reach full bloom in her 18505 lectures on working relations between men and women. She argued that society was best structured with the sexes as interdependent, not with a system of complete ...
... idea [that] Lady Macbeth, though endowed with the rarest powers, the loftiest energies, and the profoundest affec— tions, is nothing but a fierce, cruel woman, brandishing a couple ofdaggers, and inciting her husband to butcher a poor ...
... ideas she developed in 1830 about Portia, Beatrice and Lady Macbeth. In the end, there is no extricating Jameson's under— standing of nineteenth—century femininity from her under— standing of the twenty—three characters she analyzes ...
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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 |