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Prodigy houses of Virginia : architecture and the native elite Barbara Burlison Mooney
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks UVA NA 7613 .V8 M66 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mooney, Barbara Burlison, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mansions--Virginia.
- Mansions.
- Architecture, Domestic--Virginia--18th century.
- Architecture, Domestic.
- Architecture and society--Virginia.
- Architecture and society.
- Social status in art--Virginia.
- Social status in art.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 366 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, c2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction : "An art which shews so much"
- Defining the prodigy house : architectural aesthetics and the colonial dialect
- "Blind stupid fortune" : profiling the architectural patron
- "Reason reascends her throne" : the impact of dowry
- "Each rascal will be a director" : architectural patrons and the building process
- Learning to become "good mechanics in building"
- Epistemologies of female space : early Tidewater mansions
- Political power and the limits of genteel architecture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-349) and index.
- Local Notes:
- HSP credit line: Andrew Hamilton, Plan for the Pennsylvania State House, 1732 (Bc47 H18)
- ISBN:
- 9780813926735 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813926734 (cloth : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 138340482
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