Rechercher
Refine your search
Filtrer par mot clé
Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… a single unit. 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 … , B1975.3.53, 1798. 1 . See Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (London: Vintage, 1996), p. 381-398. 2 . Lawrence Klein considers that politeness was ‘a flexible device for characterizing and regulating the period’s … Fashion and Illness in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature and Culture, ed. Anita O'Connell and Clark Lawlor, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (vol. 40, n° 4, 2017), p. 542-543. 9 . Rose Alexandra McCormack points …
Codes | Fashion | Health | Leisure | Politeness | Ritual | Spa
Encyclopedia
Spas [ Health ]
… classes and assembly rooms had spaces dedicated to the occupation – restricted to gaming only after the 1739 and 1745 laws banning professionally-handled gambling. Theatres also thrived on the taste for display, performance and music …
Assemblies | Fiction | Health | Leisure | Medicine | North America | Spa
Encyclopedia
Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]
… the coffee-houses, put a new burden on the newcomers, that of conforming to a specific ritual with its own set of laws. They were thus forced to swap a previous code of behaviour – chivalric for the members of the aristocracy, popular …
Celebrity | Fame | Health | Rules | Spa
Encyclopedia
Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]
… Howard R. Kemble, They Took the Waters. The Forgotten Mineral Spring Resorts of New Jersey and nearby Pennsylvania and Delaware (Trenton, NJ: The Past Times Press, 1961); Carol Sheils Roark, ‘Historic Yellow Springs: The Restoration of an … Grand Spas of Continental Europe. 14 Today, Ballston Spa, is a post-industrial town, the Sans Souci having operated as a law school and a boarding house in the mid-nineteenth century before being torn down in 1887. Most of the grand …
Colonies | Cosmopolitanism | Health | Leisure | North America | Spa | Travel
Encyclopedia