Christy Desmet

Standard Name: Desmet, Christy

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Textual Features Anna Brownell Jameson
Characteristics of Women is the first thorough treatment of Shakespeare 's oeuvre from a woman-centred perspective, notwithstanding its opening assertion that women in general are intellectually inferior to men.
Jameson, Anna Brownell. Shakespeare’s Heroines: Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical. A. L. Burt.
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As critic Christy Desmet observes,...

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Desmet, Christy. “’Intercepting the Dew-Drop’: Female Readers and Readings in Anna Jameson’s Shakespearean Criticism”. Women’s Re-Visions of Shakespeare, edited by Marianne Novy, University of Illinois Press, 1990, pp. 41-57.