The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellecual Life, 1780-1910 - Softcover

Winterer, Caroline

 
9780801878893: The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellecual Life, 1780-1910
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ISBN 10: 0801878896 ISBN 13: 9780801878893
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004

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Winner of the New Scholars Book Award from the American Educational Research Association

Debates continue to rage over whether American university students should be required to master a common core of knowledge. In The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910, Caroline Winterer traces the emergence of the classical model that became standard in the American curriculum in the nineteenth century and now lies at the core of contemporary controversies. By closely examining university curricula and the writings of classical scholars, Winterer demonstrates how classics was transformed from a narrow, language-based subject to a broader study of civilization, persuasively arguing that we cannot understand both the rise of the American university and modern notions of selfhood and knowledge without an appreciation for the role of classicism in their creation.

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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).

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Verlag
Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0801878896
ISBN 13 
9780801878893
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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Verlag: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR, 2001
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