Associate Professor in English
Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz
Research expertise
Transnational spa culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; the work of Richard Yates ; twentieth century US-American culture
Contributions
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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont
Bath and Pyrmont were each renowned for their waters in the long eighteenth century. Bath set up an innovative model of spa sociability that supposedly exemplified the main principles of an ‘open society,’ while Pyrmont also defined a new approach to spa life but along different lines.
Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability)
Saratoga Springs and Ballston Spa are representative of the diffusion of spa culture and sociability to the former British colonies of North America. While Ballston, like many other attempts, faded into obscurity, by the early nineteenth century, Saratoga had grown into a thriving centre for fashion and sociability among elites from across the young United States.
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