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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. is book traces the anges in layout, the new tenologies, and the innovations in furniture that made them more convenient and comfortable. It argues that these material anges were just one aspect of comfort in the country house: feeling comfortable was just as important as being comfortable. Aieving this involved the comfort and solace to be found in daily routines, religious faith and, above all, relationships with family and friends. Su emotional comforts, and the aament to things and places that embodied and memorialised them, made country houses into homes. Jon Stobart is a Professor of History at Manester Metropolitan University. Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies Series Editors: Elaine Chalus and Deborah Simonton e long eighteenth century sits as a pivotal point between the early- modern and modern worlds. By actively encouraging an international focus for the series over all, both in terms of wide-ranging geographical topics and authorial locations, the series aims to feature cuing-edge resear from established and recent solars, and capitalize on the breadth of themes and topics that new approaes to resear in the period reveal. is series provides a forum for recent and established historians to present new resear and explore fresh approaes to culture and society in the long eighteenth century. As a crucial period of transition, the period saw developments that shaped perceptions of the place of the individual and the collective in the construction of the modern world. Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies is a series that is globally ambitious in scope and broad in its desire to publish cuing-edge resear that takes an innovative, multi-vocal and increasingly holistic approa to the period. e series will be particularly sensitive to questions of gender and class, but aims to embrace and explore a variety of fresh approaes and methodologies. Sartorial Practices and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century Sweden Fashioning Difference Mikael Alm Daily Lives and Daily Routines in the Long Eighteenth Century Edited by Gudrun Andersson and Jon Stobart Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House Jon Stobart At Home in the Eighteenth Century Interrogating Domestic Space Edited by Stephen G. Hague and Karen Lipsedge For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Eighteenth-Century-Cultures- and-Societies/book-series/RSECCS Comfort in the Eighteenth-Century Country House Jon Stobart First published 2022 by Routledge 605 ird Avenue, New York, NY 10158 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2022 Jon Stobart e right of Jon Stobart to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, meanical, or other means, now known or hereaer invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Stobart, Jon, 1966– author. Title: Comfort in the eighteenth-century country house / Jon Stobart. Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Series: Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies | Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: LCSH: Dwellings—Environmental engineering—History—18th century. | Country homes—England—History—18th century. | Country homes—United States—History—18th century. Classification: LCC TH6057.A6 S76 2022 (print) | LCC TH6057.A6 (ebook) | DDC 728.80941/09033—dc23 LC record available at hps://lccn.loc.gov/2021013334 LC ebook record available at hps://lccn.loc.gov/2021013335 ISBN: 978-1-032-07291-3 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-07292-0 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-003-20636-1 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9781003206361 Typeset in Sabon by Apex CoVantage, LLC For Jane Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1 Physical and Social Comfort: e Materiality of the Country House 1 Convenience and Privacy: e Aritecture of Comfort 2 Warmth and Light: Tenologies 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 Bibliography Index
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