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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 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,...more
Hardcover, 242 pages
Published
May 31st 2007
by Cornell University Press
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Pros: This book covers a topic that not very many people talk about on the regular. We're all usually so wrapped up in the men of this period, or entranced by women who are exciting and dramatic and sexy. Now, some of these women are exciting and dramatic and sexy, but many of them are not, and I think it's fascinating how learn all different types of women would use the classical idiom to express themselves for a wide variety of purposes.
This book is also comparatively readable. Classicists see...more
This book is also comparatively readable. Classicists see...more
This book offers an incredible, detailed discussion of how elite 18th and 19th century women incorporated classical learning and Greek and Roman mythology into their understanding of their place in the early American republic. I'm totally blown away and I'm not even halfway through it.
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