The culture of classicism
Subtitle: ancient Greece and Rome in American intellectual life, 1780-1910
By: Caroline Winterer
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Universities and colleges -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Classical education -- United States; Classicism -- United States; United States -- Intellectual life
Description: Winterer argues that we cannot understand the rise of the American university or modern notions of selfhood and knowledge without an appreciation for the role of classicism in their creation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-235) and index