Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… aspects of ‘openness’ i.e., the interplay of sociability and health, the paradox of regulation and freedom, the transformation of the self in a specific environment and the role of celebrity in the emergence of new communities. Places > … The German Spa in the Long Eighteenth Century (London: Routledge, 2022), p. 249. The spa as a place of identity formation: the birth of a new self? The overall context of innovation was bound to affect the self who was confronted … Cc,3.44. Pyrmont, like many of the prominent German spas of the eighteenth century, played an important role in identity formation, in particular for the educated middling orders. While the reality of spa life could not live up to the ideals …
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