Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… sociability aimed at healing the citizen’s body together with the body politic. Places > Cities Practices > Politics & Society Keywords Codes Fashion Health Leisure Politeness Ritual Spa The transformation of Bath in the long eighteenth … , a few Bath doctors, Ralph Allen, in Prior Park – tried to promote a utopia, that of Bath as a prime example of a new, open society. 22 In Bath, different social classes were brought together by shared illnesses, so a shared condition of … with Thomas Malton’s watercolours which enhance the magic of its bucolic scenery. 25 Spa life in Bath was based on openness and revolved around the concepts of healing and encounter – in which ‘the participant has to mount a performance …
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