conference on spas in Britain and in France in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Spas in Britain and in France in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries
Annick Cossic and Patrick Galliou
Ceima: Centre d’Etudes Interdisciplinaires du Monde Anglophone
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CALL FOR PAPERS
Spas in Britain and in France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
In Britain, the eighteenth century has been called “the age of
watering-places” as spas, of which there was a considerable number, played
a leading part as both health and fashion resorts in the commercialisation
of leisure which was a distinctive feature of eighteenth-century British
society. This interest in the healing virtues of water dates back to
Antiquity and was equally perceptible in France where a revival of spas had
already begun in the seventeenth century. The French Revolution put a
temporary end to the renewed interest in French watering-places, but their
development took off again and reached a peak in the second half of the
nineteenth century.
The following areas will be explored:
- the part played by archaeological discoveries and their impact
on the growing popularity of spas
- the history of spas as a branch of urban studies;
- the birth of spa networks
- the role of spas in major architectural trends
- the scientific foundations of their growth
- their contribution to the emergence of a leisure society with
its new codes of conduct and its new rites leading to a novel way of
life which was bound to be ephemeral, but which in some cases could
spearhead a social revolution
- the cultural side of disease
- the representation of the thermal experience, of spas and of
invalids according to gender in literature and the arts.
Great Britain will be the country primarily examined, but France will also
be taken into account; papers will be given in English or in French.
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
MAY 20 & 21, 2005
Conference organizers: Dr A.H. Cossic and Professor Patrick Galliou
CEIMA
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
Faculté des Lettres Victor Segalen
20 rue Duquesne
CS 93837 29238 BREST Cedex 3
For further enquiries, please contact
Annick Cossic: e-mail Annick.Cossic@univ-brest.fr
Patrick Galliou: e-mail Patrick.Galliou@wanadoo.fr
Deadline for submission of proposals (in electronic form, 200 words
approximately) for 25-minute papers: December 1, 2004.
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