Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… modes of chinoiserie and turquerie . Concepts > Taste & Manners Mots-clés Animals Australia Chinoiserie Collecting Commerce Exoticism Menageries North America During the long eighteenth century, a wave of exotic mania swept England so … of life which we think necessary to civilization, and even to happiness. It is [...] the parent of arts, the support of commerce, and the minister of national greatness, and of opulence’. 2 The exotic, which first emerged in the … and the Fan come together from the different Ends of the Earth. 6 From Addison’s words it is clear that the benefits of commerce can be found in the great variety of commodities, both convenient and ornamental, which are imported from exotic …
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