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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    29 August 2010
    20 July 2009
    ISBN:
    9780511701306
    9781108000987
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511701306
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    Dimensions:
    (198 x 129 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.45kg, 304 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Renaissance and Early Modern Literature, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies
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    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. She divides the heroines into four classes, two of which — characters of intellect and characters of passion and imagination — are discussed in Volume 1. Portia, Isabella, Beatrice, and Rosalind — the characters of intellect — are sufficiently connected by that common tie and are distinct from Juliet, Helena, Perdita, Viola, Ophelia, and Miranda, who are categorised as characters of passion and imagination. Illustrated with fifty attractive etchings made by the author herself, this eloquent book is a must-have for Shakespeare collectors, students of women's studies and others interested in nineteenth-century literary criticism.

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