The Invention of comfort [electronic resource] : sensibilities & design in early modern Britain & early America / John E. Crowley.
Material type: TextPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001.Description: xi, 361 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 306/.0973 21
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"Notes": p. 293-347.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.