Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… 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 the emerging middle class, or ‘middling orders.’ Some diseases could be seen as so many badges of honour, most particularly gout, considered … Park – tried to promote a utopia, that of Bath as a prime example of a new, open society. 22 In Bath, different social classes were brought together by shared illnesses, so a shared condition of frailty, and the cult of novelty. The eleven …
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