The Beau monde : fashionable society in Georgian London / Hannah Greig.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 346 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 9780191664007
- 0191664006
- 9780199659005
- 0199659001
- 1299781667
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- London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
- London (England) -- Social conditions -- 18th century
- London (England) -- History -- 18th century
- Fashion -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
- Fame -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
- Londres (Angleterre) -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 18e siècle
- Londres (Angleterre) -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain
- Fame -- Social aspects
- Fashion
- Manners and customs
- Social conditions
- England -- London
- 1700-1799
- 942.107 23
- HC254.5 .G74 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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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