Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… 2 The desire to change social behaviour was apparent 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 … Life, Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator (Boston: Bedford St Martin’s), The Spectator n° 411. 4 . In n° 11, Steele creates the character of Arietta who embodies the virtuous female character promoted by the periodical, a foil to …
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