Comfort, the Acceptable Face of Luxury: An Eighteenth-Century Cultural Etymology.
The use of the term comfort to refer to material well-being developed in the eighteenth century from the expressions creature comforts and comforts of life. It provided an alternative term to luxury in eighteenth-century economic theory. Comfort always retained its traditional meaning of assistance,...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 14; no. 2; pp. 4 - 23 |
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