West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… generated new forms of networking and sociability. This entry argues that the West End was shaped by both patrician society and a vigorous and often obscene popular culture that was evident in the pubs and brothels of Covent Garden. The … locations such as the King's Theatre on the Haymarket were places where female aristocrats could regulate entry to high society. Places > Cities Places > Institutions Mots-clés Aristocracy Consumption Clubs Elite Gambling Gender Opera ‘The … 1 1 . Jurgen Habermas, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989). Following the Restoration of 1660 (and the construction of squares and town …
Aristocracy | Consumption | Clubs | Elite | Gambling | Gender | Opera
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