Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… together with the body politic. Places > Cities Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Codes Fashion Health Leisure Politeness Ritual Spa The transformation of Bath in the long eighteenth century occurred against a background of urban, … In a context of rivalry with France, the refinement of manners meant a degree of emancipation from the French model of politeness. 2 The desire to change social behaviour was apparent in the aesthetics of novelty defined by Joseph Addison … Such an undertaking chimes in with the refinement of manners at work in the spa, since, as explained by Lawrence Klein, politeness had a ‘moral potential’ and ‘manners were the foundations of civic politics.’ 19 The Woods designed buildings …
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