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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade ReviewThe Mirror of Antiquity 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.
* Common-place *
Caroline 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.
* History: Reviews of New Books *
Equally 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 The Mirror of Antiquity at once instructive and entertaining to read.
-- Scott Casper * Early American Literature *
