Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… to Earl of Strafford, July 5, 1761, in The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, ed. Peter Cunningham (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1891), vol. 3, p. 410. Exotic animals as symbols of social status Such a crave for exoticism was … Court Road. Between 1757 and 1758, Georgian Londoners could go to the Talbot Inn on the Strand in order to behold Mr Richard Heppanstall’s collection of camels. Living kangaroos became part of Queen Charlotte’s collection at Kew from 1792 … to donate a turtle in order to signify his status and generosity (Plumb 71). In line with Joseph Addison and Richard Steele ’s conversational model aimed at promoting an ideal of polite sociability, the exotic appears to be a topic of …
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