Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… giving lustre to those members of society whose aim was to exhibit social and political status, as well as international reputation. 1 . See Peter Mason, ‘Exoticism in the Enlightenment’, Anthropos (vol. 86, nos. 1-3, 1991), p. 167. 2 . …
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