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

Winterer Caroline
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780801475795
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Vendor
Cornell University Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
01, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Winterer Caroline

Biographical note

Caroline Winterer is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910.

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

Winterer Caroline
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
Winterer Caroline
Heftet / 2007 / Engelsk
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<p><i>The Mirror of Antiquity</i> is the best treatment of American women and the classics from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century ever published. Lucid, thoughtful, and well-researched, it is certain to become its own object of study, a classic.</p>

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<p>Caroline Winterer has produced an impressive piece of scholarship that casts those early American women with whom we are so familiar in a new light and causes us to view them with, perhaps, a more 'classical' eye than we have before.... The strength of Winterer's work lies in the her research's enormity and her compelling argument that American women did find ways 'through classicism' to be active participants in American society, either culturally or through activism and reform.</p>

History: Reviews of New Books

<p>Equally conversant in intellectual history and material culture, Winterer offers a compelling portrait of the 'superliterate' women at the top of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American society.... Her sparkling, concise prose animates the book throughout, and generous illustration permits the reader to follow Winterer's visual insights. To use the language that her subjects would have known, these attributes make <i>The Mirror of Antiquity</i> at once instructive and entertaining to read.</p>

- Scott Casper, Early American Literature

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 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. In a strikingly innovative use of both texts and material culture, Winterer exposes the neoclassical world of furnishings, art, and fashion created in part through networks dominated by elite women. Many of these women were at the center of the national experience. Here readers will find Abigail Adams, teaching her children Latin and signing her letters as Portia, the wife of the Roman senator Brutus; the Massachusetts slave Phillis Wheatley, writing poems in imitation of her favorite books, Alexander Pope's Iliad and Odyssey; Dolley Madison, giving advice on Greek taste and style to the U.S. Capitol's architect, Benjamin Latrobe; and the abolitionist and feminist Lydia Maria Child, who showed Americans that modern slavery had its roots in the slave societies of Greece and Rome. Thoroughly embedded in the major ideas and events of the time—the American Revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the rise of a consumer society—this original book is a major contribution to American cultural and intellectual history.
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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.
The Mirror of Antiquity is the best treatment of American women and the classics from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century ever published. Lucid, thoughtful, and well-researched, it is certain to become its own object of study, a classic.
Les mer
Caroline Winterer uncovers and deftly delineates a women's world of classicism that paralleled and intersected the more well-known evocations of Greece and Rome used by the male founders. Employing clothes, needlework, and furnishings, as well as documents, as her sources, Winterer unveils the compelling historical paradox of American women reaching back to the ancient world to stake their claim to a modern world.
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<p><i>The Mirror of Antiquity</i> is the best treatment of American women and the classics from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century ever published. Lucid, thoughtful, and well-researched, it is certain to become its own object of study, a classic.</p>

Common-place

<p>Caroline Winterer has produced an impressive piece of scholarship that casts those early American women with whom we are so familiar in a new light and causes us to view them with, perhaps, a more 'classical' eye than we have before.... The strength of Winterer's work lies in the her research's enormity and her compelling argument that American women did find ways 'through classicism' to be active participants in American society, either culturally or through activism and reform.</p>

History: Reviews of New Books

<p>Equally conversant in intellectual history and material culture, Winterer offers a compelling portrait of the 'superliterate' women at the top of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American society.... Her sparkling, concise prose animates the book throughout, and generous illustration permits the reader to follow Winterer's visual insights. To use the language that her subjects would have known, these attributes make <i>The Mirror of Antiquity</i> at once instructive and entertaining to read.</p>

- Scott Casper, Early American Literature

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 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. In a strikingly innovative use of both texts and material culture, Winterer exposes the neoclassical world of furnishings, art, and fashion created in part through networks dominated by elite women. Many of these women were at the center of the national experience. Here readers will find Abigail Adams, teaching her children Latin and signing her letters as Portia, the wife of the Roman senator Brutus; the Massachusetts slave Phillis Wheatley, writing poems in imitation of her favorite books, Alexander Pope's Iliad and Odyssey; Dolley Madison, giving advice on Greek taste and style to the U.S. Capitol's architect, Benjamin Latrobe; and the abolitionist and feminist Lydia Maria Child, who showed Americans that modern slavery had its roots in the slave societies of Greece and Rome. Thoroughly embedded in the major ideas and events of the time—the American Revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the rise of a consumer society—this original book is a major contribution to American cultural and intellectual history.
Les mer
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.
The Mirror of Antiquity is the best treatment of American women and the classics from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century ever published. Lucid, thoughtful, and well-researched, it is certain to become its own object of study, a classic.
Les mer
Caroline Winterer uncovers and deftly delineates a women's world of classicism that paralleled and intersected the more well-known evocations of Greece and Rome used by the male founders. Employing clothes, needlework, and furnishings, as well as documents, as her sources, Winterer unveils the compelling historical paradox of American women reaching back to the ancient world to stake their claim to a modern world.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780801475795
Publisert
2007
Utgiver
Vendor
Cornell University Press
Vekt
454 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
01, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Winterer Caroline

Biographical note

Caroline Winterer is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910.

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