National Identity As an Issue of Knowledge and Morality: Georgian Philosophical Studies, I (Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Change Series IV)

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This interdisciplinary study explores the evolution, structure, and uses of the image of Georgian Bath, from its genesis in the eighteenth century to its renaissance in the twentieth century. In recent decades there has been both a popular resurgence of interest in heritage and tradition, and a growing academic awareness of the power of imagery in shaping the lives of individuals and societies. There is perhaps no city in Britain so saturated in history and layered with historic imagery as Bath. It therefore provides an ideal case-study to investigate the dynamic fusion and impact of the forces of past and representation. The dominant perception of Bath today is that of a classical and particularly Georgian city. In this stimulating and scholarly study, Peter Borsay examines the construction and development of this image. Its principal components, biography and architecture, are explored, together with the media through which it was constructed and transmitted, as well as its commercial, social, political, and psychological uses. Dr Borsay concludes by relating the findings for Bath to current debates on towns, heritage, and the nature of history.

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Making History.......2002-06-17

Think of Bath today and one naturally lights upon the Roman baths and Jane Austen. It is these two features that have helped make the city one of the most visited places in England, where it is not unusual to see a party of French school children parading around the baths, as it is to see a Japanese couple taking afternoon tea in the pump room, if not visiting the newly arrived Jane Austen house or marvelling at the architecture, the ultimate in Georgian elegance. Though the visitors were not always so international, Bath has always attracted tourists, for that is its very essence. It has been a resort since the 1700s, always a place for recreation, never business. Initially the sickly came here to take the waters, but this soon became a highly fashionable pursuit, which one could partake in while also engaging in the perhaps more enticing gambling activities and the exclusive social round. Amazingly such pleasures made Bath the seventh largest British city in the eighteenth century. Fittingly then it was also one of the most written about - by physicians selling the supposedly therapeutic waters, to travel writers, novelists, poets, and ultimately guidebook compilers. If nothing else it was the ultimate hangout of the literati outside of London - Defoe, Burney, Smollett, Johnson and Austen were all known to have visited there. There is thus an inexhaustible textual legacy of the city in which to delve into.
As a much represented city Bath makes a worthy subject for Peter Borsay's innovative historical approach, following on from his interest in provincial urban spaces. His subject is the representation of Georgian Bath as depicted by thousands of writers who had any connections with the city. It is a history of its image rather than its reality therefore, taking in a rich pool of written material - for Bath is according to Borsay an 'imaginative space', its image being central to its place within Georgian society and thereafter. It is also an 'interdisciplinary' study, a current buzzword within the realm of academic research.
Borsay is well qualified to undertake such a laborious enterprise involving relentless poring through infinite sources of literature pertaining to Bath, much being the product of eminent writers but an equal amount belonging to now forgotten guidebook scribblers. Within the field of urban history he has already put the city on the map for representing a hugely important provincial centre that drew influence away from the metropololis in early modern England. He has written prolifically on spa towns and their highly sophisticated social activities in this period, and it is right that the most important of these should recieve such a detailed and scholarly study focussing on its all important image - used to draw both health seekers and pleasure seekers alike.
Borsay compiles his sources well and with judgement, pulling together a highly readable and lucid study. The contemporary representation of Bath to Georgian visitors offers the most engaging part of this book, but of further interest is its image within 1990s society. Within the index we find Richard Nash and Thomas Gainsborough, but also the likes of Simon Schama, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. For Bath, to this day, continues to portray an image of Georgian neoclassicism and elegance, and one that is continually being exploited by both historians and politicians.
Borsay might have analysed pictures and printed materials more within this study as Bath has a rich pictorial past, but this perhaps merits a wholly seperate work. As it stands this book will be of interest to anyone interested in Georgian Bath - be their concern historical, geographical, literary or architectural. It is the only comprehensive study to be found on Bath's image in history, and as such it is a welcome addition to its vast bibliography, perhaps to be used as an aid for anyone contemplating a further foray into its past. Few cities would merit such an exhaustive study of its own imaginative legacy but few cities have depended so much on its own image, this having long been the basis of its economy. It is an irony, however, that Jane Austen, a woman who wholly disliked Bath for its mercantile marriage market - and satirised it so pointedly in her novels presenting the most negative of pictures - should be the current selling point of that city, and a major attraction upon the tourist heritage trail.

Making History.......2002-06-17

Think of the city of Bath today and one naturally lights upon the Roman baths and Jane Austen. It is these two features that have helped make the city one of the most visited places in England, where it is not unusual to see a party of French school children parading around the baths, as it is to see a Japanese couple taking afternoon tea in the pump room, if not visiting the newly arrived Jane Austen house or marvelling at the architecture, the ultimate in Georgian neoclassicism. Though the visitors were not always so international, Bath has always attracted tourists, for that is its very essence. It has been a pleasure resort since the early 1700s, always a place for recreation, never business. Initially the sickly came here to take the waters, but this soon became a highly fashionable pursuit which one could partake in while also engaging in the perhaps more enticing gambling activities and the exclusive social round. Amazingly such pleasures made Bath the seventh largest British city in the eighteenth century. Fittingly then it was also one of the most written about - by physicians, travel writers, novelists, poets, and ultimately guidebook anthologers. To name but few notable names, Defoe, Burney, Smollett, Johnson and Austen were all known to have visited there. There is thus an inexhaustible textual legacy pertaining to the city.

As a much represented city Bath makes a worthy subject for Peter Borsay's innovative historical approach, following on from his interest in provincial urban spaces. His subject is the representation of Georgian Bath as depicted by thousands of writers who had any connections with the city. It is a history of its image rather than its reality therefore, an interdisciplinary study taking in a rich pool of written material - for Bath is according to Borsay an 'imaginative space', its image being central to its place within Georgian society and thereafter. BR>

Borsay is well qualified to undertake such a laborious enterprise involving relentless poring through infinite sources of literature pertaining to Bath, much being the product of eminent writers but an equal amount belonging to now forgotten guidebook scribblers. Within the field of urban history he has already established Bath as representing a hugely important provincial centre that drew influence away from the metropololis in early modern England. He has written prolifically on spa towns and their highly sophisticated social activities in this period, and it is right that the most important of these should recieve such a detailed and scholarly study focussing on its all important image - used to draw both health seekers and pleasure seekers alike.

Borsay compiles his sources well and with judgement, pulling together a highly readable and lucid study. The contemporary representation of Bath to Georgian visitors offers the most engaging part of this book, but of further interest is its image within 1990s society. Within the index we predictably find Richard Nash and Thomas Gainsborough, but also the likes of Simon Schama, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. For Bath, to this day, continues to portray an image of Georgian elegance, and one that is continually being exploited by both historians and politicians.

Borsay might have analysed pictures and printed materials more within this study as Bath has a rich pictorial past, but this perhaps merits a wholly seperate work. As it stands this book will be of interest to anyone interested in Georgian Bath - be their concern historical, geographical, literary or architectural. Few cities would merit such an exhaustive study of its own imaginative legacy but few cities have depended so much on its own image, this having long been the basis of its economy. It is an irony, however, that Jane Austen, a woman who wholly disliked Bath for its mercantile marriage market - and satirised it so pointedly in her novels (presenting the most negative of pictures) should be the current selling point of that city, and a major attraction upon its tourist heritage trail.

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In the fall of 2000, Elyn Zimmerman was a Visiting Artist-in-Residence at an artist's colony in Vermont. While there, she took a group of photographs which recorded the passage of water through a nearby shallow stream bed. The rocks and pebbles underneath the water's surface, together with the play of light and shadow overhead, broke the surface of the water into cacophonous patches of black and white. This play of rhythmic and turbulent patterns is what Zimmerman managed to capture in the drawings she made based on these photographs, drawings which continue her black-and-white vocabulary but reveal an emotion and spontaneous gesture yet unseen in her work.

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