Prodigy houses of Virginia : architecture and the native elite / Barbara Burlison Mooney.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mooney, Barbara Burlison, 1952-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.
Subjects:	Mansions > Virginia. Architecture, Domestic > Virginia > 18th century. Architecture and society > Virginia. Social status in art > Virginia.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of 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.

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