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The Invention of Comfort
副标题: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early America
ISBN: 9780801873157
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
出版年: 2003-1
页数: 384
定价: $ 27.06
装帧: Pap
内容简介
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.
作者简介
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.
