Bluegrass renaissance
Subtitle: the history and culture of central Kentucky, 1792-1852
By: edited by James C. Klotter and Daniel Rowland
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780813136073; 9780813136639; 9780813140438
Subjects: Social life and customs; History; Intellectual life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Overview and Comparisons; title: Central Kentucky's "Athens of the West" Image in the Nation and in History / James C. Klotter; title: Putting Kentucky in Its Place / Stephen Aron; title: Kentucky's "Athens of the West" Viewed in a "Distant Mirror" / Shearer Davis Bowman; title: Part 2. Facets of Life; title: Slavery and Abolition in Kentucky : "Patter-rollers were everywhere" / Gerald L. Smith; title: "Mrs. Boone, I presume?" : In Search of the Idea of Womanhood in Kentucky's Early Years / Randolph Hollingsworth; title: "A richer land never seen yet" : Horse Country and the "Athens of the West" / Maryjean Wall; title: Three Central Kentuckians, the "Bone" of Political Office, and the Kentucky Exodus, 1792-1852 / Mark V. Wetherington; title: Part 3. Science, Arts, and Education; title: Jewels in the Crown : Civic Pride and Educational Institutions in the Bluegrass, 1792-1852 / John R. Thelin; title: Horace Holley and the Struggle for Kentucky's Mind and Soul / Tom Eblen and Mollie Eblen; title: Living Hills : The Frontier Science of Rafinesque / Matthew F. Clarke; title: Lexington Limners : Portrait Painters in the "Athens of the West" / Estill Curtis Pennington; title: Public Music Making, Concert Life, and Composition in Kentucky during the Early National Period / Nikos Pappas; title: Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Neoclassical Lexington / Patrick Snadon; title: Afterword / by Jim Gray.