The mirror of antiquity
Subtitle: American women and the classical tradition, 1750-1900
By: Caroline Winterer.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780801441639
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
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The female world of classicism in eighteenth-century America; title: The rise of the Roman matron, 1770-1790; title: Daughters of Columbia, 1780-1800; title: Grecian luxury, 1800-1830; title: Climbing Parnassus, 1790-1850; title: The Greek slave, 1830-1865; title: Antigone and the twilight of female classicism, 1850-1900.