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

By (author) Michelle Moseley-Christian

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Dollhouses were a notable outlet for women in the Netherlands as collectors during the seventeenth and eighteenth 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 these cabinets elevated the domestic world as a subject in the Netherlandish visual arts. The dollhouse as a format for these collections goes beyond didactic meanings to incorporate haptic performance, games, displays of commodities, and global goods that reflect the home as a site of knowledge production and commerce, emphasizing the role of women in assembling goods for the home. Close analysis of dollhouses in cultural and theoretical contexts situate the women who assembled them within broader histories of collecting. At Home in the Early Modern Dutch Dollhouse is a research project primarily aimed at scholarly audiences in humanities fields including art history and material culture, architectural studies, the history of interiors, and studies of domesticity, but it is intended to be accessible to a wide range of interested general readers.

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Normally shipped | Forthcoming. We are not accepting backorders for this item yet
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press
Published date | 21 Sep 2026
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 256
Dimensions | 246 x 174 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-9-4629-8898-9
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