The
fascinating history of the bathroom and the Water closet and of sundry
habits, fashions & accessories of the toilet principally in Great
Britain, France, & America.
By Lawrence Wright.
"Clean
and decent", says the author's Preface "is meant to entertain, even if
scholarship does keep breaking through" It is indeed fascinating;
sometimes astonishing. Who would have supposed that the Romans had
lagged hot-water cylinders? that Queen Elizabeth I had cushions in his
bath? that baths have been concealed in sofas, and washbasins in pianos?
that whisky may be added to the bathwater, but that mutton chops should
not be eaten in the bath?that the shower-bath calls for a hat, and can
cause asphyxia? that sponges have sex? It seems that more is to be
learned about past peoples from their bath-rooms than from their
bath-rooms than from their battlefields; patterns of social history are
mirrored in the bathwater, of found locked in the water-closet. "To the
historian", says Siegfried Giedion, "there are no banal things".
Ref. 3617
Autor: Wright, Lawrence
Idioma: English
Editorial: Routledge & Kegan (London)
1963
14,50x22,50 cm.
282 páginas. Tapas duras con sobrecubierta. Numerosas ilustraciones. Firma. Buen estado.