The German Spa in the Long Eighteenth Century

Satire and the Diffusion of Spa Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century

“…16 As Ute Lotz-Heumann has pointed out, the discourse that existed in addition to personal correspondence grew much more diverse: 'the reading public learned about life at the spa through a variety of functional and fictional genres', which grew rich enough to provide a basis of shared knowledge for the emergence of satire. 17 Perhaps not surprisingly, spa culture and sociability produced a number of satires of varying quality. These offer important insights into national spa cultures and expressions of sociability within those spa cultures.…”