Caroline Winterer

The Culture of Classicism

Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910

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Produktbeschreibung

"A conscientious and important history of the study of classicism in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries... Ms. Winterer sheds light on the virtual disappearance of the ancients from the modern imagination." -- Wall Street Journal "It is, without question, one of the greatest contributions to (the field) yet published." -- American Historical Review

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780801867996
• ISBN-10: 0801867991
• Artikelnr.: 21893012

Autorenporträt

Caroline Winterer is an assistant professor at Stanford University. She is also the author of the book, The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition,1750-1900 (Cornell University Press, 2007).