TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greig,Hannah
TI  - The Beau monde: fashionable society in Georgian London 
SN  - 9780191664007
AV  - HC254 .B438 2013
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  - London (England)
KW  - Upper class
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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 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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