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1 online resource (xii, 242 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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JSTOR EBA.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
| Summary |
"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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Upper class women -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Upper class women. |
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United States. |
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Upper class women -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Classicism -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Classicism. |
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History. |
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Classicism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Classical education -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Classical education. |
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Classical education -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women classicists -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
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Women classicists. |
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Women classicists -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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United States -- Civilization -- Classical influences.
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Civilization. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Winterer, Caroline, 1966- Mirror of antiquity. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007 9780801441639 (DLC) 2006102923 (OCoLC)77574629 |
| ISBN |
9781501711558 (electronic book) |
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1501711555 (electronic book) |
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9780801441639 |
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0801441633 |
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9780801475795 |
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0801475791 |
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