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The Invention of comfort [electronic resource] : sensibilities & design in early modern Britain & early America / John E. Crowley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001.Description: xi, 361 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306/.0973 21
LOC classification:
  • GT481.U6 C76 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Ebook TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

"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.

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