Phaeton [ Transport ]
… were a unique and overt display of elite status – but a pleasure carriage set those of highest rank and fortune apart from middling coach owners. 2 2 . Ben Jackson, ‘To Make a Figure in the World: Identity and Materiality Literacy in … The phaeton afforded intimate sociability between two occupants as driver and passenger. The phaeton emerged, in part, to facilitate new forms of elite sociability; its long, bendy springs, its open sides, and its ability to travel at … to onlookers the sort of driver, or person, you were. From the novels of Frances Burney to Jane Austen to the satirical cartoons of Gillray and Cruikshank and the essays of Thomas de Quincey there was a significant cultural investment in the …
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