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The Invention of Comfort

Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America

John E. Crowley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2003
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-7315-7 (ISBN)

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How did our modern ideas of physical well-being originate? As John Crowley demonstrates in The Invention of Comfort, changes in sensible technology owed a great deal to fashion-conscious elites discovering discomfort in surroundings they earlier had felt to be satisfactory. Written in an engaging style that will appeal to historians and material culture specialists as well as to general readers, this pathbreaking work brings together such disparate topics of analysis as climate, fire, food, clothing, the senses, and anxiety-especially about the night.

John E. Crowley is the George Munro Professor of History at Dalhousie University. He is currently studying the creation of a global landscape in British visual culture c. 1750-1820.

Contents: Preface and Acknowledgments PART I: TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL AMENITY Chapter 1. Commodious Comfort: Hall and Hearth, Chamber and Chimney Chapter 2. Civil Comfort: Mansion Houses Chapter 3. Colonial Comfort: Vernacular and Elegant Options PART II: FROM LUXURY TO COMFORT Chapter 4. Decent Comfort: Candles and Mirrors Chapter 5. Convenient Comfort: Political Economy Chapter 6. Enlightened Comfort: Stoves and Lamps PART III: THE LANDSCAPE OF COMFORT Chapter 7. Picturesque Comfort: The Cottage Chapter 8. Healthy Comfort: The Piazza Chapter 9. Gendered Comfort: House Design BooksConclusionNotesI

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.4.2003
Zusatzinfo	68 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Hausbau / Einrichten / Renovieren
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8018-7315-0 / 0801873150
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-7315-7 / 9780801873157
Zustand	Neuware