Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… great variety of exotic goods (including china, silk, perfumes, and precious stones), giving lustre to those members of society whose aim was to exhibit social and political status, as well as international reputation. 1 . See Peter Mason, … in the Enlightenment’, Anthropos (vol. 86, nos. 1-3, 1991), p. 167. 2 . Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society (London: A. Millar & T. Caddel, 1767), p. 381-382. Exotic gardens as sites of sociability Members of the nobility … sobriety, fellowship and sociable relations to such an extent that, as attested by the dinner register of the Royal Society ’s dining club, a gentleman who wished to be accepted as an Honorary Member of the aforementioned club was …
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