1st Edition

A Cosmopolitan Cure Writing Resort Culture in an Age of Nations

By BD Morgan Copyright 2017
220 Pages
by Routledge

'Ella Maclane is dying to come to Baden-Baden', remarks a character in Henry James's novel Confidence. But there is a hitch: 'Her father and mother think it's improper - what do you call it - immoral.' From the 1840s until the 1870s German water resorts, and Baden-Baden ("Europe's summer capital") in particular, were among the most fashionable - and notorious - of Continental destinations, famed... Read more
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