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

John E. Crowley

Johns Hopkins University Press

2003

376 páginas

12h 32m

ISBN-13: 9780801873157

Definitions of comfort changed over time, the author shows, and men and women sometimes interpreted comfort differently. He begins with a description of the material culture of heating and illumination in British and Anglo-American domestic environments during the postmedieval centuries, when comfort was primarily a moral term implying consolation and support. (Midwest).