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- catalog abstract ""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 Crowley highlights his arguments with excerpts from historical documents - diaries, travel accounts, politeness manuals, and personal letters - and includes analysis of architectural plans and domestic art (reproduced in the book's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.".
- catalog contributor b11866858.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Social life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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 Crowley highlights his arguments with excerpts from historical documents - diaries, travel accounts, politeness manuals, and personal letters - and includes analysis of architectural plans and domestic art (reproduced in the book's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.".
- catalog description ""Notes": p. 293-347.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 361 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Invention of comfort.".
- catalog identifier "0801864372 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Invention of comfort.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Invention of comfort.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "306/.0973 21".
- catalog subject "GT481.U6 C76 2001".
- catalog subject "House furnishings Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "House furnishings United States History.".
- catalog subject "Households Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Households United States History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "The invention of comfort : sensibilities & design in early modern Britain & early America / John E. Crowley.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".