Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… to change social behaviour was apparent in the aesthetics of novelty defined by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in The Spectator in which they celebrated the pleasures enjoyed by a man of a ‘polite imagination’ and asserted that ‘the … (vol. 45, n°4, 2002), p. 898. 3 . Erin Mackie (ed.), The Commerce of Everyday Life, Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator (Boston: Bedford St Martin’s), The Spectator n° 411. 4 . In n° 11, Steele creates the character of Arietta who embodies the virtuous female character …
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