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Zusatztext Anyone wishing to understand the meaning of home will welcome the essays in this volume, which have much to say about how inextricably linked our concept of home is with the notion of comfort. By casting light on countries across Western Europe, and looking at the situations of men, women, and even pets, this splendid collection sets a high standard for investigations of domestic space and will appeal to readers across disciplines. Informationen zum Autor Jon Stobart , FRHS, is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, and the editor of The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900 (Bloomsbury, 2020), A Taste for Luxury (Bloomsbury, 2017) with Johanna Ilmakunnas, General Editor of A Cultural History of Shopping , 6 volumes (Bloomsbury, 2022), and co-editor, with Christopher J. Berry, of A Cultural History of Luxury in the Age of Enlightenment (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). He is also editor of Global Goods and the Country House (2023), author of Comfort and the Eighteenth-Century Country House (2022) and co-author of Consumption and the Country House (2016). Vorwort An exploration of how new architectural technologies and the emotional assemblage of objects combined to create comfortable homes in 18th-century Europe. Zusammenfassung Comfort, both physical and affective, is a key aspect in our conceptualization of the home as a place of emotional attachment, yet its study remains under-developed in the context of the European house. In this volume, Jon Stobart has assembled an international cast of contributors to discuss the ways in which architectural and spatial innovations coupled with the emotional assemblage of objects to create comfortable homes in early modern Europe.The book features a two-section structure focusing on the historiography of architectural and spatial innovations and material culture in the early modern home. It also includes 10 case studies which draw on specific examples, from water closets in Georgian Dublin to wallpapers in 19th-century Cambridge, to illustrate how people made use of and responded to the technological improvements and the emotional assemblage of objects which made the home comfortable. In addition, it explores the role of memory and memorialisation in the domestic space, and the extent to which home comforts could be carried about by travellers or reproduced in places far removed from the home. The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900 offers a fresh contribution to the study of comfort in the early modern home and will be vital reading for academics and students interested in early modern history, material culture and the history of interior architecture. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsList of TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Comfort, the Home and Home Comforts, Jon Stobart (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) Part I - The Convenient House: Architectural Ideals and Practicalities 1. Convenience, Utility and Comfort in British Domestic Architecture of the Long 18th Century, Dale Townshend (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) People in Focus. Masters and Servants: Parallel Worlds in Blondel's Maisons de Plaisance, Aurélien Davrius (ENSA Paris-Malaquais, France) 2. Northern Comfort and Discomfort: Spaces and Objects in Swedish Country Houses, c.1740-1800, Johanna Ilmakunnas (University of Turku, Finland) Object in Focus. Marketing the Necessary Comforts in Georgian Dublin, Conor Lucey (University College Dublin, Ireland) 3. The Invention of Thermal Comfort in 18th-Century France, Olivier Jandot (Université d’Artois, France) Object in Focus. The Improved Tiled Stove: Sweden's Contribution to Defining Comfort? Cristina Prytz (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) People in Focus. Keeping Warm with Sir John Soane, Diego Bocchini (Independent Scholar...
