Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… of sociability was acknowledged. 4 Bath’s development and evolution from a centre of cure, whose waters had attracted invalids back in Roman times, to a centre of fashion were truly remarkable. A place of unruly, licentious behaviour in … such as the appointment of a new Prime Minister, or the Stamp Act crisis (1765-66). 12 This newly formed community of invalids could temporarily ignore class divisions, at least the boundary separating the aristocracy and the gentry from … inherent in spa life, where to see and to be seen was of paramount importance, and where illness was staged and invalids turned into ‘actors of their diseases’ (Cossic, Spas , 129), 21 was the logical consequence of both the new …
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