TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greig,Hannah
TI  - The Beau monde: fashionable society in Georgian London 
SN  - 9780191664007
AV  - HC254.5 .G74 2013eb
U1  - 942.107 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Fashion
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Fame
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Europe
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - London (England)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Londres (Angleterre)
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : 'The brilliant vortex' -- Leading the fashion : 'A most brilliant shew' -- Life in the town : 'All together and all distinct' -- The court and fashionable display : 'Most tastefully spangled' -- Politics and fashionable life : 'All the chatter chitter I heard' -- Beauties : 'So pow'rful her charms' -- Exile and fraud : a changeable world -- Conclusion : London's little coterie -- Appendix : Uses and meanings of 'beau monde' ; A supplementary essay
N2  - Caricatured for extravagance, vanity, glamorous celebrity and, all too often, embroiled in scandal and gossip, 18th-century London's fashionable society had a well-deserved reputation for frivolity. But to be fashionable in 1700s London meant more than simply being well dressed. Fashion denoted membership of a new type of society - the beau monde, a world where status was no longer determined by coronets and countryseats alone but by the more nebulous qualification of metropolitan 'fashion'. Conspicuous consumption and display were crucial; the right address, the right dinner guests, the right possessions, the right jewels, the right seat at the opera. The author leads us on a tour of this exciting new world, from court and parliament to London's parks, pleasure grounds, and private homes.--publisher's description
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