Dairy Queens : : The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de' Medici to Marie-Antoinette / / Meredith Martin.
Though Meredith Martin is primarily an art historian, this book goes way beyond art history. It examines “pleasure dairies,” built by the French aristocracy to be sites of leisure, healing, and simple luxury, from the vantage point of cultural studies as well as social and political history. The tra...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Harvard Historical Studies ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Catherine de’ Medici, The French Cybele
- 2. Absolutism and the Sexual Politics of Pastoral Retreat
- 3. Health, Hygiene, and the Hermitages of Madame de Pompadour
- 4. Marie-Antoinette and the Hameau Effect
- 5. Regenerating the Monarchy: The Queen’s Dairy at Rambouillet
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index