A Cosmopolitan Cure : Writing Resort Culture in an Age of Nations
by
BD Morgan
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1910887021
ISBN-13
9781910887028
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Legenda
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 29th, 2028
Print length
220 Pages
Product Classification:
Literary studies: general
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From the 1840s until the 1870s German water resorts, and Baden-Baden in particular, were among the most fashionable - and notorious - of Continental destinations, famed for fostering transient and transgressive modes of therapy, sociability and play. This book explores the "classic" watering place's curious fictional afterlives.
''Ella Maclane is dying to come to Baden-Baden'', remarks a character in Henry James''s novel Confidence. But there is a hitch: ''Her father and mother think it''s improper - what do you call it - immoral.'' From the 1840s until the 1870s German water resorts, and Baden-Baden ("Europe''s summer capital") in particular, were among the most fashionable - and notorious - of Continental destinations, famed for fostering transient and transgressive modes of therapy, sociability and play. In this study, an original alloy of comparative criticism and cultural history, B.D. Morgan reads across genres and literary traditions to decode the nineteenth century''s fascination with the spa - a ''cosmopolitan'' space in an era of nationalisms - before exploring the "classic" watering place''s curious fictional afterlives.
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