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In the bowels of the novel: The exchange of fluids in the Beau Monde
From:
Novel
| Date:
April 1, 1999| Author:
Cottom, Daniel
| Copyright Novel, Inc. Spring 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information
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Despite its long history as a watering place, which extended back to the era of the Roman conquest, many contemporary writers observed that the city of Bath had become a new thing in the eighteenth century. Once a small and unaccommodating resort, it had been refashioned to profit from recent developments in social organization, transportation, tourism, and recreation. It was then prepared to shape and even create the tastes of newly prosperous members of the middling classes, as well as thos...
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