The invention of comfort : sensibilities & design in early modern Britain & early America
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The invention of comfort : sensibilities & design in early modern Britain & early America
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000
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- 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
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内容説明
How did our modern ideas of physical comfort originate? This study demonstrates that changes in the technology of comfort depended on a fashion-conscious public being made to feel discomfort with surroundings they had previously preceived as functionally adequate.
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