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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, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 366 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-349) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780813926735 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813926734 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007021534
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library