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Prodigy houses of Virginia : architecture and the native elite
- Title
- Prodigy houses of Virginia : architecture and the native elite / Barbara Burlison Mooney.
- Author
- Mooney, Barbara Burlison, 1952-
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- ix, 366 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Summary
- "In Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture and the Native Elite, Barbara Burlison Mooney examines twenty-five great eighteenth-century Virginia mansions and offers an analytical overview of Virginia's elite residential architecture from a patronage perspective." "Although it focuses on architectural history, the book concerns itself less with issues of design and construction than with the social and cultural context in which the Virginia gentry commissioned their imposing dwellings. In her examination of such places as Stratford Hall, Carter's Grove, and Gunston Hall - mansions whose grandeur has become synonymous with the image, if not the reality, of life in colonial Virginia - Mooney illuminates the fortunes, motivations, and aspirations of the wealthy and powerful owners who built their "homes" with the objective of securing their status and impressing the public." "Prodigy Houses of Virginia will appeal not only to architectural and social historians of the colonial period but also to the general reader interested in these mansions and the people who inhabited them."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-349) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: "An Art Which Sows So Much" -- 1. Defining the Prodigy House: Architectural Aesthetics and the Colonial Dialect -- 2. "Blind Stupid Fortune": Profiling the Architectural Patron -- 3. "Reason Reascends Her 'Throne'': The Impact of Dowry -- 4. "Each Rascal Will Be a Director": Architectural Patrons and the Building Process -- 5. Learning to Become "Good Mechanics in Building" -- 6. Epistemologies of Female Space: Early Tidewater Mansions -- 7. Political Power and the Limits of Genteel Architecture -- Appendix. Study Group Data Sources.
- ISBN
- 9780813926735 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813926734 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007021534
- 99820240212
- OCLC
- ocn138340482
- 138340482
- SCSB-5402914
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries