Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… model of politeness. 2 The desire to change social behaviour was apparent in the aesthetics of novelty defined by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele in The Spectator in which they celebrated the pleasures enjoyed by a man of a ‘polite … an Innovative Pattern of Sociability’ (Paris: Le Manuscrit, 2013), p. 231-261. 33 . Hannah More in a letter to the Rev. Joseph Berington, Barley Wood, 1809, described her sociable use of her Bath house, a place which ‘for many winters was …
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