Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in The Spectator in which they celebrated the pleasures enjoyed by a man of a ‘polite imagination’ and asserted that ‘the pleasures of the fancy [were] more conducive to health than those of the … house, could go to such an innovative institution as a coffee-house for the ladies 27 and enjoy the pleasures of the imagination to the full, thanks to the varied cultural life there (Cossic, Bath, 97-113) or simply the round of …
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