The Invention of Comfort : Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America
(2022)
By:
Crowley, John E.
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (477 pages)
ISBN/ISSN
9780801875168 MWT14945709, 0801875161 14945709
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A history and analysis of the development of domestic design in early modern Britain and America. 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
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