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The Invention of comfort : sensibilities & design in early modern Britain & early America / John E. Crowley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crowley, John E., 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Households--United States--History.
- Households.
- Households--Great Britain--History.
- House furnishings--United States--History.
- House furnishings.
- House furnishings--Great Britain--History.
- United States--Social life and customs.
- United States.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 361 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "How did our modern ideas of physical comfort originate? As John E. Crowley demonstrates in The Invention of Comfort, changes in the technology of comfort depended on a fashion-conscious public's being made to feel discomfort with surroundings that they had previously perceived as functionally adequate." "Written in an engaging style that will appeal to historians and material culture specialists as well as to general readers, this work brings together such disparate topics of analysis as climate, fire, food, clothing, the senses, and anxiety - especially about the night. Crowley highlights his arguments with excerpts from historical documents - diaries, travel accounts, politeness manuals, and personal letters - and includes analysis of architectural plans and domestic art (reproduced in the book's many illustrations)."--Jacket
- Contents:
- Commodious comfort : hall and hearth, chamber and chimney
- Civil comfort : mansion houses
- Colonial comfort : vernacular and elegant options
- Decent comfort : candles and mirrors
- Convenient comfort : political economy
- Enlightened comfort : stoves and lamps
- Picturesque comfort : the cottage
- Healthy comfort : the piazza
- Gendered comfort : house design books.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- "Notes": p. 293-347.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-7516-1
- OCLC:
- 559303777
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