Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… for British Art, B1975.3.53, 1798. Abstract The ancient city of Bath renowned for its waters ever since the Roman era played a decisive role in reinventing spa sociability in the first half of the eighteenth century. At a time when the … the suffering body is not sociable, it was rejuvenated in Bath in a holistic approach to city life in which architecture played a decisive part. The environment was redesigned with new spa attributes, the Assembly Rooms, the Pump Room, the … could turn out to be ambivalent, both drug and poison, a pharmakon , and ‘the queen of watering-places’ became the playing field of opposed forces, both centrifugal and centripetal. In letters and in fiction, Bath could be celebrated …
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