Pleasure gardens [ Sports & Leisure ]
… interactions. Testifying to the rising commodification of culture, spaces like these also record the importance of visuality as a significant element of sociability. Seeing and being seen was conditioned by the gardens’ very … between social classes but also encouraged the workings of fancy and imagination. 5 . Peter De Bolla, 'The Visibility of Visuality: Vauxhall Gardens and the Siting of the Viewer' in Stephen Melville and Bill Readings (eds.), Vision and …
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