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The birth of the English kitchen, 1600-1850 / Sara Pennell.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) TX653 .P45 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pennell, Sara, author.
- Series:
- Cultures of early modern Europe
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kitchens--Social aspects--England.
- Kitchens.
- Domestic space--England--History.
- Domestic space.
- Material culture--England--History.
- Material culture.
- Kitchens--Social aspects.
- England.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Where's the Kitchen?
- Out of time: The missing pre-history of the modern kitchen
- The `everyday' room
- Themes
- 2. Dream Kitchens? Imagining the Pre-modern Kitchen
- Visualizing the ideal kitchen, c.1600
- 1770
- The `model' kitchen, c. 1750
- 1850
- The impossible kitchen?
- 3. Locating the `Kitchen'
- `A Nowhere place'?
- The `kitchen' emergent
- Upstairs, downstairs: The mobile kitchen
- The kitchen improved
- 4. The `Power House': Technologies in the Kitchen
- Fuel economies
- Pots and pans histories
- Kitchen matter
- Conclusion
- 5. `Kitchen Stuff': Useful Things in the Kitchen
- Equipping the kitchen
- Useful goods?
- The comfortable kitchen
- 6. Peopling the Kitchen
- The kitchen workspace
- Kitchen service
- Living, lodging, sharing
- A woman's place?
- 7. Kitchen Moralities
- `Finding Christ in the kitchen'
- `Meer bedlam' and the `unhomely' kitchen
- Remaking the plebeian kitchen, remaking the household
- 8. The Kitchen Displayed
- Visiting the kitchen
- Exit through the kitchen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1350056189
- 9781350056183
- 9781441166975
- 9781441191861
- 1441166971
- 1441191860
- OCLC:
- 990571434
- Publisher Number:
- 99989754074
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