Research Catalog

Title

The mirror of antiquity : American women and the classical tradition, 1750-1900 / Caroline Winterer.

Author

Winterer, Caroline, 1966-

Publication

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

xii, 242 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Upper class women > United States > Intellectual life > 18th century
• Upper class women > United States > Intellectual life > 19th century
• Classicism > United States > History > 18th century
• Classicism > United States > History > 19th century
• Classical education > United States > History > 18th century
• Classical education > United States > History > 19th century
• Women classicists > United States > History > 18th century
• Women classicists > United States > History > 19th century
• United States > Civilization > Classical influences

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-233) and index.

Contents

The female world of classicism in eighteenth-century America -- The rise of the Roman matron, 1770-1790 -- Daughters of Columbia, 1780-1800 -- Grecian luxury, 1800-1830 -- Climbing Parnassus, 1790-1850 -- The Greek slave, 1830-1865 -- Antigone and the twilight of female classicism, 1850-1900.

Call Number

JFE 07-5598

ISBN

• 9780801441639 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0801441633 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006102923

OCLC

77574629

Author

Winterer, Caroline, 1966-

Title

The mirror of antiquity : American women and the classical tradition, 1750-1900 / Caroline Winterer.

Imprint

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-233) and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 07-5598