Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… and private menageries, museums, salons, tea-rooms, theatres, opera houses and many others. If it is true that North America, the Bahamas, Canary Islands, the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Madagascar represented the ideal … . Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Animals Australia Chinoiserie Collecting Commerce Exoticism Menageries North America During the long eighteenth century, a wave of exotic mania swept England so fully that the passion for the exotic … as sites of sociability Members of the nobility and the royal family were interested in exotic plants notably from the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and China, which were brought back by plant collectors such as John Ellis …
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