… a while at the Baptist’s Head, the society located itself in the commercial heart of the city. It adopted a series of regulations to keep the talk flowing freely, stipulating that discussions should be open to all present, and the …
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… the kind of chaos in seeking the choicest seats often noted in many of the larger spas, but even this modest effort at regulation was not universal. Beyond the established, but not regulated, custom of taking the waters and the times when …
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… was often in political sympathy with them’ (Bentley, The Stranger from Paradise, 110). See also Jon Mee, Enthusiasm and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), ch. 6. 11 …