The Mirror of Antiquity : : American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750–1900 /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Winterer, Caroline,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2009
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 42 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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