Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… The term ‘exotic’ was associated with unfamiliar flora and fauna as well as with rare objects exhibited in places of sociability such as gardens, public and private menageries, museums, salons, tea-rooms, theatres, opera houses and many … away country 1 - was associated with unfamiliar flora and fauna as well as with rare objects exhibited in such places of sociability as gardens, public and private menageries, museums, salons, tea-rooms, theatres, opera houses and so forth. … An Essay on the History of Civil Society (London: A. Millar & T. Caddel, 1767), p. 381-382. Exotic gardens as sites of sociability Members of the nobility and the royal family were interested in exotic plants notably from the Americas, …
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