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Alexander Pope [ Art and Literature ]
Catholicism | Celebrity | Correspondence | Enmity | Friendship | Poetry
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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… seeks to outline the contours of a transnational spa sociability in four major aspects of ‘openness’ i.e., the interplay of sociability and health, the paradox of regulation and freedom, the transformation of the self in a specific … Bath (London: Faber & Faber, 1932), p. 253. The role in regulating sociability and easing the frictions that might arise played by the Master of Ceremonies seems to be the greatest and perhaps most English innovation in spa sociability. It … type of sociability. Spa sociability involved a degree of self-exhibition, social composure in public spaces, the display of wit, mastering the art of conversation between the sexes on various sociable occasions such as public breakfasts …
Celebrity | Fame | Health | Rules | Spa
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Celebrity [ Publicity ]
… has a much longer history that begins in the later fifteenth century. 9 Portraiture has an even longer history and has played an important role in cultivating public interest in celebrated individuals. 10 The continuities between premodern …
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Voltaire (and his social networks) [ Association ]
… provincial estates where Voltaire took refuge while in exile, and the people with whom he formed attachments and staged plays in Switzerland. Finally, the weak links designate the relationships Voltaire developed with several of the admirers …
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