* Contents * Preface * Classical Conditioning: School, Home, and Society * Democracy * Pastoralism and Utilitarianism * Nationalism * Romanticism * Christianity * Slavery * Epilogue * Notes * Index
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
Carl J. Richard is Professor of History, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
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*
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.
*Choice*
[A] thorough and thoughtful survey of the antebellum period.
*Times Literary Supplement*
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