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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winterer, Caroline, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of 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.