1st Edition

At Home in the Early Modern Dutch Dollhouse Gender, Materiality, and Collecting in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Netherlands

By Michelle Moseley-Christian Copyright 2027
294 Pages 8 Color & 57 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Dollhouses were a notable outlet for women in the Netherlands as collectors during the 17th and 18th centuries. This book explores the material culture of the dollhouses as displays, shedding light on new concepts of domesticity, the reception of household goods, and the agency of female collectors. Seven extant Early Modern Dutch pronk (luxury) dollhouses provide material evidence of how... Read more

Introduction: At Home in the Early Modern Dutch Dollhouse

1. Dollhouses and the Female Collector in the Early Modern Netherlands

2. Managing the Early Modern Dutch Household: Dollhouse as Didactic Text

3. Embodying Domesticity: Reconstructing Dollhouse Display in Practice and Theory

4. Gender, Materiality and Excess: Collecting or Consumption in the Early Modern Dutch Dollhouse

5. East Asia Design in the Dollhouse: The World Within Reach

Conclusion

Biography

Michelle Moseley-Christian is Associate Professor of Art History at Virginia Tech. A researcher of Netherlandish and Northern European art and material culture, 1400–1750, she has published in Renaissance Quarterly, Sixteenth Century Studies and co-edited the volume Gender and Otherness in Medieval and Early Modern Art.