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The Golden Age of the Classics in America
Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United States
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English
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2009
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Richard explores the enshrinement of the classics in American antebellum culture. For the first time, knowledge of the classics extended beyond aristocratic males to the middle class, women, African Americans, and frontier settlers, but the Civil War led to a radical alteration of the educational system that steadily eroded their preeminence.
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In a lucid and readable book, Carl Richard clearly demonstrates the ongoing importance of classicism in the decades before the Civil War in the United States. Focusing on well-established figures in the American political and literary canon, he shows how the ideals of the classical world continued to provide Americans with one of their principal sets of ideological tools well into the nineteenth century. Richard shows that classicism was democratized in nineteenth-century America, reaching more broadly and deeply into American culture than it had in the previous century.
-- Caroline Winterer, Stanford University
-- Caroline Winterer, Stanford University
With the present work, Richard, a distinguished intellectual historian at the University of Louisiana, has concluded a trilogy, the other titles being The Founders and the Classics and Greeks and Romans Bearing Gifts. Together, these works constitute an engaging, accessible, and learned study of the central role the classics played in U.S. intellectual history up to 1865. Full citations of the sources, an accurate index, elegant typography, and sturdy binding make this admirable monograph a valuable resource for students at every level.
-- R. I. Frank Choice
-- R. I. Frank Choice
[A] thorough and thoughtful survey of the antebellum period.
-- Richard Jenkyns Times Literary Supplement
-- Richard Jenkyns Times Literary Supplement
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Contents
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Preface
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1. Classical Conditioning: School, Home, and Society
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2. Democracy
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3. Pastoralism and Utilitarianism
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4. Nationalism
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5. Romanticism
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6. Christianity
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7. Slavery
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Epilogue
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Index
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