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The Mirror of Antiquity : American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750-1900 /

"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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Winterer, Caroline, 1966-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.