The Mirror of Antiquity : : American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750–1900 / / Caroline Winterer.
In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Overturning the widely held belief that classical learning and political ideals were relevant only to men, she follows...
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Winterer, Caroline, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Mirror of Antiquity : American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750–1900 / Caroline Winterer. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2009 1 online resource (256 p.) : 42 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The Female World of Classicism in Eighteenth-Century America -- 2. The Rise of the Roman Matron, 1770-1790 -- 3. Daughters of Columbia, 1780-1800 -- 4. Grecian Luxury, 1800-1830 -- 5. Climbing Parnassus, 1790-1850 -- 6. The Greek Slave, 1830-1865 -- 7. Antigone and the Twilight of Female Classicism, 1850-1900 -- Epilogue. The New Colossus -- NOTES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Overturning the widely held belief that classical learning and political ideals were relevant only to men, she follows the lives of four generations of American women through their diaries, letters, books, needlework, and drawings, demonstrating how classicism was at the center of their experience as mothers, daughters, and wives. Importantly, she pays equal attention to women from the North and from the South, and to the ways that classicism shaped the lives of black women in slavery and freedom.In a strikingly innovative use of both texts and material culture, Winterer exposes the neoclassical world of furnishings, art, and fashion created in part through networks dominated by elite women. Many of these women were at the center of the national experience. Here readers will find Abigail Adams, teaching her children Latin and signing her letters as Portia, the wife of the Roman senator Brutus; the Massachusetts slave Phillis Wheatley, writing poems in imitation of her favorite books, Alexander Pope's Iliad and Odyssey; Dolley Madison, giving advice on Greek taste and style to the U.S. Capitol's architect, Benjamin Latrobe; and the abolitionist and feminist Lydia Maria Child, who showed Americans that modern slavery had its roots in the slave societies of Greece and Rome. Thoroughly embedded in the major ideas and events of the time—the American Revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the rise of a consumer society—this original book is a major contribution to American cultural and intellectual history. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Classical education United States History 18th century. Classical education United States History 19th century. Classicism United States History 18th century. Classicism United States History 19th century. Upper class women United States Intellectual life 18th century. Upper class women United States Intellectual life 19th century. Women classicists United States History 18th century. Women classicists United States History 19th century. Ancient History & Classical Studies. U.S. History. Womens Studies. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501711558 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501711558 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501711558/original |
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