The mirror of antiquity
American women and the classical tradition, 1750-1900
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Author
Publication
2007 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
60,500 words, Guess
Page Count
242 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL17845946M
- ISBN-139780801441639
- OCLC Control Number77574629
- OCLC Control Numbermirrorofantiquit00wint
- Library of Congress Control Number2006102923
and 2 more
- LibraryThing3670948
- Goodreads2033130
Classifications
- DDC305.48/9621097309033
- LCCHQ1418 .W56 2007
Description
"In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days in the eighteenth and 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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