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

Crowley, John E. E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801873150 ISBN 13 : 9780801873157

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003

Synopsis

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 anxiety—especially about the night.

A propos du livre

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801873150
• ISBN 13: 9780801873157
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 376
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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