Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… from the French model of politeness. 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 … encounters and shopping, such as Milsom Street (one can think of its influence on the plots of some of Jane Austen ’s novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion ). In this respect, John Wood the Elder and his son John Wood the Younger were … different social classes were brought together by shared illnesses, so a shared condition of frailty, and the cult of novelty. The eleven rules of behaviour invented by Beau Nash and stuck in The Pump Room in 1707 aimed at getting rid of …
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