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Comfort in the eighteenth-century country house
"Country houses were grand statements of power and status, but they were also places where people lived. This book outlines traces the changes in layout, the new technologies, and the innovations in furniture that made them more convenient and comfortable. It argues that these material changes...
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| Document Type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London
: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
, 2022
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| Series: | Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Cover |
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Comfort in the eighteenth-century country house Erscheint auch als: Comfort in the eighteenth-century country house |
| Author Notes: | Jon Stobart |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction Part 1: Physical and Social Comfort: The Materiality of the Country House 1. Convenience and Privacy: The Architecture of Comfort 2. Warmth and Light: Technologies of Comfort 3. Comfortable Rooms: Sociability and the "Modern Living Room" Part 2: Emotional Comfort: Feelings, Letters and Home 4. Cleanliness and Godliness: Comforts of the Body and Mind 5. Family and Friends: Comfort, Consolation and Correspondence 6. Home Comforts: Objects and Memories. Conclusions: House and Home
