TY - BOOK AU - Rowland,Daniel B. AU - Klotter,James C. ED - Project Muse. TI - Bluegrass renaissance: the history and culture of central Kentucky, 1792-1852 SN - 9780813136639 AV - F459.L6 B55 2012 U1 - 976.9/47 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Lexington, Ky. PB - University Press of Kentucky KW - Lexington Region (Ky.) KW - Intellectual life KW - Social life and customs KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 18th century KW - Lexington (Ky.) KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1. Overview and Comparisons -- Central Kentucky's "Athens of the West" Image in the Nation and in History / James C. Klotter -- Putting Kentucky in Its Place / Stephen Aron -- Kentucky's "Athens of the West" Viewed in a "Distant Mirror" / Shearer Davis Bowman -- Part 2. Facets of Life -- Slavery and Abolition in Kentucky : "Patter-rollers were everywhere" / Gerald L. Smith -- "Mrs. Boone, I presume?" : In Search of the Idea of Womanhood in Kentucky's Early Years / Randolph Hollingsworth -- "A richer land never seen yet" : Horse Country and the "Athens of the West" / Maryjean Wall -- Three Central Kentuckians, the "Bone" of Political Office, and the Kentucky Exodus, 1792-1852 / Mark V. Wetherington -- Part 3. Science, Arts, and Education -- Jewels in the Crown : Civic Pride and Educational Institutions in the Bluegrass, 1792-1852 / John R. Thelin -- Horace Holley and the Struggle for Kentucky's Mind and Soul / Tom Eblen and Mollie Eblen -- Living Hills : The Frontier Science of Rafinesque / Matthew F. Clarke -- Lexington Limners : Portrait Painters in the "Athens of the West" / Estill Curtis Pennington -- Public Music Making, Concert Life, and Composition in Kentucky during the Early National Period / Nikos Pappas -- Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Neoclassical Lexington / Patrick Snadon -- Afterword / by Jim Gray UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813136639/ ER -