Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… Wikimedia Commons, 1784. Image InFilms, ‘View from Prior Park, Bath over gardens and the Palladian Bridge towards the city of Bath’, 2006, WikiCommons. Image Thomas Malton, ‘The Royal Crescent’, 1780, WikiCommons. Image Thomas Rowlandson, 'Comforts of Bath: The Pump Room', Yale Center for British Art, B1975.3.53, 1798. Résumé The ancient city of Bath renowned for its waters ever since the Roman era played a decisive role in reinventing spa sociability in … it became a centre of mixed sex sociability, ranking just behind London, as a beacon of new social interaction. A city which started as a market town 5 evolved into a fashionable spa whose model of sociability was not simply imitative …
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