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The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America - Couverture rigide

Crowley, John E.

 
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Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

John E. Crowley is the George Munro Professor of History at Dalhousie University. He is currently studying the creation of a global landscape in British visual culture c. 1750–1820.

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