 | The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750–1900 Subjects: Upper class women -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Upper class women -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Classicism -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Classicism -- United States -- History -- 19th centur; 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. Caroline Winterer is Associate Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910 . |
