Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… watering-places micro-societies emerged and interacted in modes that were the result of the paradoxical cohabitation of pleasure and pain, of illness and fashion. In Bath, sociability aimed at healing the citizen’s body together with the … 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 imagination’ and asserted that ‘the pleasures of the fancy [were] more conducive to health than those of the understanding.’ 3 In their periodical, read by …
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