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

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 346 pages) : illustrations 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed November 18, 2013) Subject Fashion -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century Fame -- Social aspects -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Fame -- Social aspects Fashion Manners and customs Social conditions SUBJECT London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078224 London (England) -- Social conditions -- 18th century London (England) -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85078209 Subject England -- London Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191664007 0191664006 9780199659005 0199659001 1299781667 9781299781665

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