Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… Anthropos (vol. 86, nos. 1-3, 1991), p. 167. 2 . Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society (London: A. Millar & T. Caddel, 1767), p. 381-382. Exotic gardens as sites of sociability Members of the nobility and the … politicians, traders and men of letters. 3 . Sarah Easterby-Smith, ‘Botanical Collecting in Eighteenth-Century London’, Curtis’s Botanical Magazine (vol. 34, no. 4, 2017), p. 279-297. 4 . On the excessive height of the Pagoda, … letter to Earl of Strafford, July 5, 1761, in The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, ed. Peter Cunningham (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1891), vol. 3, p. 410. Exotic animals as symbols of social status Such a crave for …
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