Characteristics of Women 2 Volume Paperback Set
Moral, Poetical and Historical

Anna Jameson offers a nineteenth-century woman's perspective on the popular female characters of Shakespeare's plays.

Anna Jameson (Author)

9781108000970, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 18 February 2010

637 pages
25.2 x 32.5 x 7 cm, 1.26 kg

Characteristics of Women (1832) by Anna Jameson was the first attempt by a woman to analyse the characteristics of twenty-three heroines of Shakespeare's plays. In this book, Jameson, an English writer, feminist, and art historian, addresses problems of women's education and participation in public life while providing insightful and original readings of Shakespeare's women. Jameson classifies the heroines into four categories: characters of intellect, characters of passion and imagination, characters of the affections and historical characters, explored articulately across these two volumes.

Volume I: Introduction
Part I. Characters of Intellect: 1. Portia
2. Isabella
3. Beatrice
4. Rosalind
Part II. Characters of Passion and Imagination: 5. Juliet
6. Helena
7. Perdita
8. Viola
9. Ophelia
10. Miranda
Volume II: Part I. Characters of the Affections: 1. Hermione
2. Desdemona
3. Imogen
4. Cordelia
Part II. Historical Characters: 5. Cleopatra
6. Octavia
7. Volumnia
8. Constance of Bretagne
9. Elinor of Guienne
10. Blanche of Castile
11. Margaret of Anjou
12. Katherine of Arragon
13. Lady Macbeth.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]