Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… could turn out to be ambivalent, both drug and poison, a pharmakon , and ‘the queen of watering-places’ became the playing field of opposed forces, both centrifugal and centripetal. In letters and in fiction, Bath could be celebrated …
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