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Author:   David Ellison ,  Andrew Leach
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9781472455338

ISBN 10:   1472455339
Pages:   138
Publication Date:   27 October 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Thinking Through Discomfort (David Ellison and Andrew Leach), 2. ‘Good God Mrs Nicholson!’ Slaves and Domestic Disquiet in Eighteenth-century Scotland (Dolly MacKinnon), 3. Thoreau’s Economy (Andrew Ballantyne), 4. Wandering Sensations: Supernatural Discomforts and Modern Domesticity (David Ellison), 5. Climatic Discomforts: [Sub]tropical Climates, Racial Character and the Nineteenth-century Queensland House (Deborah van der Plaat), 6. Technological Progress as an Obstruction to Domestic Comfort: Hugo Van Kuyck and the Introduction of the American Example in Post-war Belgium (Fredie Floré), 7. Everything but the Orgy Truck: Shopping for Radical Architecture at MoMA, 1972 (Alexandra Brown), 8. It’s Not me, It’s You (Andrew Leach), 9. The Wolfers House by Henry Van de Velde, as Occupied by Herman Daled (Bart Verschaffel), 10. Blind Windows: A Particularly Domestic Discomfort (Chris L. Smith), 11. Reality without Restraint: Bathtime in the Villa dall’Ava (Christophe Van Gerrewey)

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David Ellison is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. His research focuses on the literary and cultural histories of Victorian domesticity. Andrew Leach is Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney, Australia. Among his books are What is Architectural History? (2010), The Baroque in Architectural Culture 1880–1980 (2015, with John Macarthur and Maarten Delbeke) and Rome (2016).

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