Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… greatness, and of opulence’. 2 The exotic, which first emerged in the seventeenth century, reached its maximum expression in the eighteenth century when the establishment of trade routes continued on a larger scale to supply Europe … Bentley and Son, 1891), vol. 3, p. 410. Exotic animals as symbols of social status Such a crave for exoticism was also expressed by an excessively intense enthusiasm for exotic animals (lions, elephants, monkeys, crocodiles, kangaroo, turtles … Earl of Shelburne, the utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, Sir Robert Walpole, Sir Hans Sloane and many others. As expressed by Christopher Plumb: […] exotic animals and birds [...] increasingly became part of London life in the …
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