“The Improvements Made By America on The Ancient Mode”: Classicism and Nationalism in the Early American Republic, 1780-1850
Classicism, an interest in the history, society, and arts of the ancient world, became a staple of American culture with the first permanent European settlements, and reached its zenith in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The extant scholarship on early American classicism offers...
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W&M ScholarWorks
2016
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1477068560 https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&context=etd |