Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… Image Thomas Malton Jr., 'Queen Square', Wikimedia Commons, 1784. Image InFilms, ‘View from Prior Park, Bath over gardens and the Palladian Bridge towards the city of Bath’, 2006, WikiCommons. Image Thomas Malton, ‘The Royal Crescent’, … watering-places micro-societies emerged and interacted in modes that were the result of the paradoxical cohabitation of pleasure and pain, of illness and fashion. In Bath, sociability aimed at healing the citizen’s body together with the … in the aesthetics of novelty defined by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in The Spectator in which they celebrated the pleasures enjoyed by a man of a ‘polite imagination’ and asserted that ‘the pleasures of the fancy [were] more conducive …
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