Prodigy houses of Virginia
Subtitle: architecture and the native elite
By: Barbara Burlison Mooney.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813926735
Subjects: Mansions -- Virginia; Architecture, Domestic -- Virginia -- 18th century; Architecture and society -- Virginia; Social status in art -- Virginia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "An art which shews so much"; title: Defining the prodigy house : architectural aesthetics and the colonial dialect; title: "Blind stupid fortune" : profiling the architectural patron; title: "Reason reascends her throne" : the impact of dowry; title: "Each rascal will be a director" : architectural patrons and the building process; title: Learning to become "good mechanics in building"; title: Epistemologies of female space : early Tidewater mansions; title: Political power and the limits of genteel architecture.