Caroline Winterer
Biographic Data
| ID | 711137 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Winterer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Winterer |
| SIGNATURE | WINTERER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How the New World Became Old
The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Volume I offers an introduction to the Enlightenment, which served as the shared background for virtually all revolutionary turmoil, and the American Revolution, which inaugurated the Age of Revolutions. Beginning with a thorough introduction, the volume covers international rivalry, the importance of slavery, and the reformist mind-set that prevailed on the eve of the revolutionary era. It addresses the traditional argument on whether the Enligh…
Democratic Vistas
After a generation of grand stories about the rise of modern republican thought (the so-called “republican-synthesis” school epitomized by the works of Gordon Wood and J. G. A. Pocock), James Kloppenberg's new book, Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought , offers a history of democratic thought: what Kloppenberg calls “the idea of self-government.” In the course of nearly a thousand pages of text and notes, …
Historical Research in a Digital Age
What can a big data approach bring to the study of the early modern Republic of Letters? This is the question we asked ourselves in our collaborative project Mapping the Republic of Letters. For the past nine years, we have been exploring the limits and possibilities of computation and visualization for studying early modern correspondences, whose massive and dispersed character have long challenged their students. Beyond cliometrics, what new wa…
Where Is America in the Republic of Letters
Where is America in the republic of letters? This question has formed in my mind over the last four years as I have collaborated on a new project based at Stanford University called Mapping the Republic of Letters. The project aims to enrich our understanding of the intellectual networks of major and minor figures in the republic of letters, the international world of learning that spanned the centuries roughly from 1400 to 1800. By creating visu…
Why Did American Women Read the Aeneid ?
This chapter contains sections titled: Further Reading
Model Empire, Lost City
Caroline Winterer, Model Empire, Lost City: Ancient Carthage and the Science of Politics in Revolutionary America, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1 (January 2010), pp. 3-30
The Mirror of Antiquity
In 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. 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 …
The Works of William Sanders Scarborough
Reviewed by: The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader Caroline Winterer William Sanders Scarborough. The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader. The Collected Black Writings Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xlvii, 508. $70.00. ISBN 0-19-530962-6. Edited by Michele Valerie Ronnick. William Sanders Scarborough, born a slave in Georgia in 1852, rose to become an im…
On the Wings of Time
Knowledge of the Greco-Roman past played a major role in helping early modern Europeans to sort the vast array of New World novelties into a coherent order. But classicism was no monolithic, unchanging tradition imposed by conquering elites to dominate indigenous cultures. In her new book, On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru, Sabine MacCormack presents a far more nuanced view of the legacy of Greco-Roman antiquity in the Andean…
Is There an Intellectual History of Early American Women
Catherine Kerrison, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005) Susan Stabile, Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004) Mary Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institut…
Venus on the Sofa
What did early national Americans mean when they articulated fears of “luxury and effeminacy,” those twin sins of a republic that idolized the classical virtues of manly self-restraint? This essay argues that the fear of luxury and effeminacy circulated not just as airy metaphor but as palpable reality, specifically in the figure of the female recumbent on the sofa. The article traces separately the careers of Enlightenment Venus, who especially …
From Royal to Republican
Journal Article From Royal to Republican: The Classical Image in Early America Get access Winterer Caroline Winterer Caroline assistant professor in the Department of History at Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 91, Issue 4, March 2005, Pages 1264–1290, https://doi.org/10.2307/3660173 Published: 01 March 2005
The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison
Preface 1. Origins 1850-74 2. A Room of Her Own Newnham College 1874-9 3. 'Salvationist for Greek Art': London 1879-86 4. Mythology and monuments: Greece and London, 1886-99 5. Women and Knowledge: Newnham 1898 - 1901 6. Ker and heiron: Jane Harrison and Gilbert Murray 1901-3 7. Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion: Newnham 1903-6 8. The Pillar and the Maiden: Newnham 1906-7 9. Crabbed age and youth: Cambridge 1908-9 10. Heresy and humanity…
The Problem of the Past in the Modern University
Between 1860 and 1900 Americans witnessed a revolution that ushered in a new type of university and a new academic order. During those years, the increasingly nonsectarian, scientific, and utilitarian university supplanted the denominationally affiliated liberal arts college as America's preeminent institution of higher learning. Many of the architects of this new university, whose ranks included university presidents, faculty, and civic leaders,…
Victorian Antigone
IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY, ANTIGONE SUDDENLY SURFACED AS AN IMPORTANT rhetorical figure in America. The heroine of Sophocles' eponymous Greek tragedy, Antigone was a dutiful sister who defied the state to attend to her family and religious conscience. After 1840, she began to appear in American scholarship and college courses, general interest and women's periodicals, novels, short stories, and poetry, reaching an apotheosis in the early twen…
A happy medium
The career, teaching, and writing of Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929), sociologist at the University of Michigan, show that a middle ground between broadly integrative, general knowledge and specialized knowledge prevailed well into the early twentieth century, both at the level of professional social science and within the modern university curriculum. Cooley's social science rested upon introspection and the study of art and literature, and he…
To the editor
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"Avoiding a "Hothouse System of Education
Histories of education in United States have often focused upon role of nineteenth-century urbanization and industrialization in accelerating educational innovation. In keeping with this trend, historians of kindergarten have attributed success of this institution to several factors. The kindergarten, based on pedagogy of German educator Friedrich Froebel, was first introduced in United States from Germany in 1860 and by 1914 was entrenched in mo…
On the Wings of Time
Knowledge of the Greco-Roman past played a major role in helping early modern Europeans to sort the vast array of New World novelties into a coherent order. But classicism was no monolithic, unchanging tradition imposed by conquering elites to dominate indigenous cultures. In her new book, On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru, Sabine MacCormack presents a far more nuanced view of the legacy of Greco-Roman antiquity in the Andean…
Where Is America in the Republic of Letters
Where is America in the republic of letters? This question has formed in my mind over the last four years as I have collaborated on a new project based at Stanford University called Mapping the Republic of Letters. The project aims to enrich our understanding of the intellectual networks of major and minor figures in the republic of letters, the international world of learning that spanned the centuries roughly from 1400 to 1800. By creating visu…
Victorian Antigone
IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY, ANTIGONE SUDDENLY SURFACED AS AN IMPORTANT rhetorical figure in America. The heroine of Sophocles' eponymous Greek tragedy, Antigone was a dutiful sister who defied the state to attend to her family and religious conscience. After 1840, she began to appear in American scholarship and college courses, general interest and women's periodicals, novels, short stories, and poetry, reaching an apotheosis in the early twen…
From Royal to Republican
Journal Article From Royal to Republican: The Classical Image in Early America Get access Winterer Caroline Winterer Caroline assistant professor in the Department of History at Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 91, Issue 4, March 2005, Pages 1264–1290, https://doi.org/10.2307/3660173 Published: 01 March 2005
The Mirror of Antiquity
In 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. 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 …
Is There an Intellectual History of Early American Women
Catherine Kerrison, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005) Susan Stabile, Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004) Mary Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institut…
The Problem of the Past in the Modern University
Between 1860 and 1900 Americans witnessed a revolution that ushered in a new type of university and a new academic order. During those years, the increasingly nonsectarian, scientific, and utilitarian university supplanted the denominationally affiliated liberal arts college as America's preeminent institution of higher learning. Many of the architects of this new university, whose ranks included university presidents, faculty, and civic leaders,…
"Avoiding a "Hothouse System of Education
Histories of education in United States have often focused upon role of nineteenth-century urbanization and industrialization in accelerating educational innovation. In keeping with this trend, historians of kindergarten have attributed success of this institution to several factors. The kindergarten, based on pedagogy of German educator Friedrich Froebel, was first introduced in United States from Germany in 1860 and by 1914 was entrenched in mo…
"Avoiding a "Hothouse System of Education
Histories of education in United States have often focused upon role of nineteenth-century urbanization and industrialization in accelerating educational innovation. In keeping with this trend, historians of kindergarten have attributed success of this institution to several factors. The kindergarten, based on pedagogy of German educator Friedrich Froebel, was first introduced in United States from Germany in 1860 and by 1914 was entrenched in mo…
To the editor
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
A happy medium
The career, teaching, and writing of Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929), sociologist at the University of Michigan, show that a middle ground between broadly integrative, general knowledge and specialized knowledge prevailed well into the early twentieth century, both at the level of professional social science and within the modern university curriculum. Cooley's social science rested upon introspection and the study of art and literature, and he…
Victorian Antigone
IN THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY, ANTIGONE SUDDENLY SURFACED AS AN IMPORTANT rhetorical figure in America. The heroine of Sophocles' eponymous Greek tragedy, Antigone was a dutiful sister who defied the state to attend to her family and religious conscience. After 1840, she began to appear in American scholarship and college courses, general interest and women's periodicals, novels, short stories, and poetry, reaching an apotheosis in the early twen…
The Problem of the Past in the Modern University
Between 1860 and 1900 Americans witnessed a revolution that ushered in a new type of university and a new academic order. During those years, the increasingly nonsectarian, scientific, and utilitarian university supplanted the denominationally affiliated liberal arts college as America's preeminent institution of higher learning. Many of the architects of this new university, whose ranks included university presidents, faculty, and civic leaders,…
The Life and Work of Jane Ellen Harrison
Preface 1. Origins 1850-74 2. A Room of Her Own Newnham College 1874-9 3. 'Salvationist for Greek Art': London 1879-86 4. Mythology and monuments: Greece and London, 1886-99 5. Women and Knowledge: Newnham 1898 - 1901 6. Ker and heiron: Jane Harrison and Gilbert Murray 1901-3 7. Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion: Newnham 1903-6 8. The Pillar and the Maiden: Newnham 1906-7 9. Crabbed age and youth: Cambridge 1908-9 10. Heresy and humanity…
Venus on the Sofa
What did early national Americans mean when they articulated fears of “luxury and effeminacy,” those twin sins of a republic that idolized the classical virtues of manly self-restraint? This essay argues that the fear of luxury and effeminacy circulated not just as airy metaphor but as palpable reality, specifically in the figure of the female recumbent on the sofa. The article traces separately the careers of Enlightenment Venus, who especially …
From Royal to Republican
Journal Article From Royal to Republican: The Classical Image in Early America Get access Winterer Caroline Winterer Caroline assistant professor in the Department of History at Stanford University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 91, Issue 4, March 2005, Pages 1264–1290, https://doi.org/10.2307/3660173 Published: 01 March 2005
Is There an Intellectual History of Early American Women
Catherine Kerrison, Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005) Susan Stabile, Memory's Daughters: The Material Culture of Remembrance in Eighteenth-Century America (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004) Mary Kelley, Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institut…
The Works of William Sanders Scarborough
Reviewed by: The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader Caroline Winterer William Sanders Scarborough. The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader. The Collected Black Writings Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xlvii, 508. $70.00. ISBN 0-19-530962-6. Edited by Michele Valerie Ronnick. William Sanders Scarborough, born a slave in Georgia in 1852, rose to become an im…
On the Wings of Time
Knowledge of the Greco-Roman past played a major role in helping early modern Europeans to sort the vast array of New World novelties into a coherent order. But classicism was no monolithic, unchanging tradition imposed by conquering elites to dominate indigenous cultures. In her new book, On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain, and Peru, Sabine MacCormack presents a far more nuanced view of the legacy of Greco-Roman antiquity in the Andean…
The Mirror of Antiquity
In 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. 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 …
Why Did American Women Read the Aeneid ?
This chapter contains sections titled: Further Reading
Model Empire, Lost City
Caroline Winterer, Model Empire, Lost City: Ancient Carthage and the Science of Politics in Revolutionary America, The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 1 (January 2010), pp. 3-30
Where Is America in the Republic of Letters
Where is America in the republic of letters? This question has formed in my mind over the last four years as I have collaborated on a new project based at Stanford University called Mapping the Republic of Letters. The project aims to enrich our understanding of the intellectual networks of major and minor figures in the republic of letters, the international world of learning that spanned the centuries roughly from 1400 to 1800. By creating visu…
Democratic Vistas
After a generation of grand stories about the rise of modern republican thought (the so-called “republican-synthesis” school epitomized by the works of Gordon Wood and J. G. A. Pocock), James Kloppenberg's new book, Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought , offers a history of democratic thought: what Kloppenberg calls “the idea of self-government.” In the course of nearly a thousand pages of text and notes, …
Historical Research in a Digital Age
What can a big data approach bring to the study of the early modern Republic of Letters? This is the question we asked ourselves in our collaborative project Mapping the Republic of Letters. For the past nine years, we have been exploring the limits and possibilities of computation and visualization for studying early modern correspondences, whose massive and dispersed character have long challenged their students. Beyond cliometrics, what new wa…
The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Volume I offers an introduction to the Enlightenment, which served as the shared background for virtually all revolutionary turmoil, and the American Revolution, which inaugurated the Age of Revolutions. Beginning with a thorough introduction, the volume covers international rivalry, the importance of slavery, and the reformist mind-set that prevailed on the eve of the revolutionary era. It addresses the traditional argument on whether the Enligh…
How the New World Became Old
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