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November 20, 2007
Caroline Winterer, MA'91, PhD'96
The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, Cornell University Press, 2007.
The book: This book uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days from the 18th through the 19th 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. 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.
The author: Caroline Winterer is assistant professor of history at Stanford University. She is the author of "The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780ñ1910."
Posted by tobiaslw at November 20, 2007 11:54 AM