West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989). Following the Restoration of 1660 (and the construction of squares and town houses for the elite in the … music. 4 4 . Jennifer Hall-Witt, Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780-1880 (Durham, NH: University Press of New England, 2007), p. 4-5, 24, 61. The forms of clothing and conspicuous consumption evident when aristocratic … a London base. 5 . Hannah Greig, The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). There was an explosion of high culture based on the promotion of professional artists, writers and …
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