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Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… result of scandal, political exile, financial difficulty or ill health, but increasing numbers travelled for purposes of pleasure and leisure. Frequently undertaking similar routes and itineraries to the Grand Tourist, they were the start of … Track: European tourism, literature and the ways to culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). Chard, Chloe, Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour: Travel Writing and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830 (Manchester: Manchester … Track: European tourism, literature and the ways to culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993). Chard, Chloe, Pleasure and Guilt on the Grand Tour: Travel Writing and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830 (Manchester: Manchester …
Academies | Cosmopolitanism | Court | Diplomacy | Education | Elite | Europe | Italy | Tourism | Politeness | Travel
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Collections [ Furniture & Interior decoration / Art & Luxury ]
… la campagne, mais aussi dans les salons, dans les cafés, dans les galeries d’art ou lors d’expositions, comme dans les pleasure gardens de Vauxhall et du Ranelagh, ou au Foundling Hospital . Les salles de vente, comme celle fondée par … for those who have the honour of approaching him, is that he is himself such an expert and takes the greatest pleasure in showing them to others. It is especially in this that I consider you lucky; there are plenty of collectors, … Circles of Learning (Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies; New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1996). Scott, Jonathan, The Pleasures of Antiquity: British collectors of Greece and Rome ( New Haven/London: Yale University Press for the Paul …
Aesthetics | Art | Collecting | Curiosity | Italy | Museums | Science
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Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]
… Brewer, David A., 'Making Hogarth Heritage', Representations (vol. 71, n o 1, 2000), p. 21-63. Burnett, John, Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain (London and New York: Routledge, 1999). Grigsby, Leslie B., … … Brewer, David A., 'Making Hogarth Heritage', Representations (vol. 71, n o 1, 2000), p. 21-63. Burnett, John, Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain (London and New York: Routledge, 1999). Grigsby, Leslie B., …
Alcohol | Celebration | Conviviality | Drinking | Masculinity | Ritual | Tableware
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Ascot [ Games & Sports / Sports & Leisure ]
… from England , ed. Ben P. Robertson, Ekaterina V. Kobeleva (London: Anthem Press, 2021). Huggins, Mike J., ‘More Sinful Pleasures? Leisure, Respectability and the Male Middle Classes in Victorian England.’, Journal of Social History (vol. … from England , ed. Ben P. Robertson, Ekaterina V. Kobeleva (London: Anthem Press, 2021). Huggins, Mike J., ‘More Sinful Pleasures? Leisure, Respectability and the Male Middle Classes in Victorian England.’, Journal of Social History (vol. …
Fashion | Gambling | Sports | Horseracing
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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 …
Codes | Fashion | Health | Leisure | Politeness | Ritual | Spa
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James Boswell [ Art and Literature ]
… Johnson. He enjoyed, too, the company of intelligent upper-class women in terms of sociability rather than for sexual pleasure. He was a depressive, often connected to his excessive drinking, which placed a limit on his capacity for … not helped by this insistence that he study law and enter the legal profession. He found some alleviation in the pleasures of the Edinburgh cultural scene, including the theatre, alcohol and an affair with an actress. These, and … when enjoying the society of his fellow beings, including intelligent or instructive or amusing conversation, the sheer pleasure of being with a person or people for whom he felt affection or respect, and flirting. Boswell’s taste in women …
Alcohol | Depression | Charm | Manners | Sex
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Helen Maria Williams [ Art and Literature / Travel ]
Correspondence | France | French Revolution | Politics | Women
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Covent Garden [ Institutions ]
… a square of genteel housing in the seventeenth century, but the intrusion of a market was followed by its remaking as a pleasure district, including many sites of sociability, such as theatres, taverns, brothels and coffeehouses. These were … produced a unique milieu of sociability and creativity: ‘Mingling, drinking, gossiping and fornicating, business and pleasure blended easily together. More than anywhere else in the capital, Covent Garden, with its eccentric mix of … a square of genteel housing in the seventeenth century, but the intrusion of a market was followed by its remaking as a pleasure district, including many sites of sociability, such as theatres, taverns, brothels and coffeehouses. These were …
Coffeehouses | Commerce | Market | Prostitution | Theatre
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