{"product_id":"the-mirror-of-antiquity-american-women-and-the-classical-tradition-1750-1900-hardback-9780801441639","title":"The Mirror of Antiquity; American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750–1900 (Hardback) 9780801441639","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Mirror of Antiquity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAmerican Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750–1900\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCaroline Winterer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801441639\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 May 2007\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.2 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mirror of Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e is the best treatment of American women and the classics from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century ever published. Lucid, thoughtful, and well-researched, it is certain to become its own object of study, a classic.\u003c\/p\u003e (Common-place) \u003cp\u003eCaroline Winterer has produced an impressive piece of scholarship that casts those early American women with whom we are so familiar in a new light and causes us to view them with, perhaps, a more 'classical' eye than we have before.... The strength of Winterer's work lies in the her research's enormity and her compelling argument that American women did find ways 'through classicism' to be active participants in American society, either culturally or through activism and reform.\u003c\/p\u003e (History: Reviews of New Books) \u003cp\u003eEqually conversant in intellectual history and material culture, Winterer offers a compelling portrait of the 'superliterate' women at the top of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American society.... Her sparkling, concise prose animates the book throughout, and generous illustration permits the reader to follow Winterer's visual insights. To use the language that her subjects would have known, these attributes make \u003ci\u003eThe Mirror of Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e at once instructive and entertaining to read.\u003c\/p\u003e - Scott Casper (Early American Literature)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Mirror of Antiquity\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, 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.In a strikingly innovative use of both texts and material culture, Winterer exposes the neoclassical world of furnishings, art, and fashion created in part through networks dominated by elite women. Many of these women were at the center of the national experience. Here readers will find Abigail Adams, teaching her children Latin and signing her letters as Portia, the wife of the Roman senator Brutus; the Massachusetts slave Phillis Wheatley, writing poems in imitation of her favorite books, Alexander Pope's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e; Dolley Madison, giving advice on Greek taste and style to the U.S. Capitol's architect, Benjamin Latrobe; and the abolitionist and feminist Lydia Maria Child, who showed Americans that modern slavery had its roots in the slave societies of Greece and Rome. Thoroughly embedded in the major ideas and events of the time—the American Revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the rise of a consumer society—this original book is a major contribution to American cultural and intellectual history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685661208856,"sku":"9780801441639","price":38.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-mirror-of-antiquity-american-women-and-the-classical-tradition-1750-1900-hardback-9780801441639","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}