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The Invention of Comfort

Name: The Invention of Comfort
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9780801873157
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Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America

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By John E. Crowley
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: April 16, 2003
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 376

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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 anxietyespecially about the night.

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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

""Good books cross lines drawn in the sand by others. Terrific books scatter the sand and redraw the lines. John E. Crowley's The Invention of Comfort is one of the latter... A masterful and sweeping interpretation of material culture evidence that asks important historical questions.""

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