The Beau monde : fashionable society in Georgian London / Hannah Greig.

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Greig, Hannah [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 346 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191664007
0191664006
9780199659005
0199659001
1299781667
9781299781665

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beau monde.DDC classification:

942.107 23

LOC classification:

HC254.5 .G74 2013eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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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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