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Ranelagh [ Sports & Leisure ]

… familiarising the visitors with newly fashionable visual and musical culture: Italianate practices such as masquerades, exoticism with a Chinese pavilion, and concerts in the Rotunda which housed an orchestra. This created shared cultural … references. Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Pleasure gardens Politeness Luxury Spectacle Entertainement Masquerade Exoticism Visual culture Ranelagh was one of the ‘pleasure gardens’, places of entertainment which flourished in the … where visitors could take walks in the alleys, and a canal with a Chinese pavilion reflecting the growing taste for exoticism; at night, the garden was illuminated with lanterns. From 1767 there was a garden orchestra. The most …

Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]

… by the refinement of manners and the love of luxury. The term ‘exotic’ - which must not be misunderstood with exoticism, a term coined in the nineteenth century standing for the sense of nostalgia experienced by the beholder of a … whose aim was to exhibit social and political status, as well as international reputation.   1 . See Peter Mason, ‘Exoticism in the Enlightenment’, Anthropos (vol. 86, nos. 1-3, 1991), p. 167. 2 . Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History … information, which was so fundamental to the development of knowledge, could take place’. 3  As a paramount example of exoticism, the royal gardens at Kew were also characterised by an extraordinary collection of ornamental buildings among …

Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]

… associated with femininity as the eighteenth-century unfolded. Its prestige was derived from the material cost and exoticism of tea and of tea sets. Yet, writers of essay periodicals often blamed it for encouraging idleness. They …

Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]

… of eighteenth-century London. As a typical urban phenomenon, menageries were places of sociability exploiting the exoticism of animals becoming luxury commodities to be exhibited publicly or to be consumed collectively. New social …