{"product_id":"the-mirror-of-antiquity-american-women-and-the-classical-tradition-17501900-9780801441639","title":"The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition  17501900","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Mirror of Antiquity  Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American womens 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 Popes Iliad and Odyssey; Dolley Madison  giving advice on Greek taste and style to the U.S. Capitols 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 timethe American Revolution  slavery and abolitionism  the rise of a consumer societythis original book is a major contribution to American cultural and intellectual history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953342963765,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801441633","price":29.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801441639.jpg?v=1788185778","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-mirror-of-antiquity-american-women-and-the-classical-tradition-17501900-9780801441639","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}