Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… to the therapy, even if 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 … lines contrast vividly with the rectilinear ones of the industrial city. 20 The theatricality inherent in spa life, where to see and to be seen was of paramount importance, and where illness was staged and invalids turned into … British Eighteenth Century,’ The Historical Journal (vol. 45, n°4, 2002), p. 898. 3 . Erin Mackie (ed.), The Commerce of Everyday Life, Selections from The Tatler and The Spectator (Boston: Bedford St Martin’s), The Spectator n° 411. 4 . In …
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