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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, (c)2013.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiv, 346 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191664007
  • 9780199659005
  • 9781299781665
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HC254 .B438 2013
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Contents:
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.
Subject: "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 Beau Monde leads us on a tour of this exciting new world, from court and parliament to London's parks, pleasure grounds, and private homes."--Publisher website.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: 'The brililant 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 Beau Monde leads us on a tour of this exciting new world, from court and parliament to London's parks, pleasure grounds, and private homes."--Publisher website.

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