Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… body 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 … Crescent (1776) can be considered as their most outstanding achievements. The circularity of their forms encouraged a leisurely stroll, symbolized perfection but also claimed a long-forgotten Celtic past (Cossic, Bath , 64-74). In their … and of the two sexes, with a concomitant politics of conflict avoidance, was seriously tarnished by the excesses of the leisure industry ( Klein, 'Politeness and the Interpretation', 879) . As Katherine Plymley stated in her diary on 27 …
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