Spadoise Diversions
The Waters as an Entrepôt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8861985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olivia Smith (0000-0002-1266-7377, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 523-536 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0013838x.2011.584748 |
| OpenAlex | W2000146201 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Spa in modern-day Belgium was, in the early modern period, notorious for its waters and for being a place of interaction and intrigue. United by the customs of a water-taking routine and away from home, travellers from across Europe met there, spoke and exchanged stories, news and ideas. The transient, seasonal water-drinkers formed a traffic streaming through the local, more permanent structures and customs of Spa itself, and of the broader region. Drawing on both factual and fictional material, this article considers the ways in which Spa did and was imagined to function as a place of diversion—diversion both dangerous and pleasurable
Aesthetics · Art · Period (music · Water diversion · Water resource management · Environmental Science · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century · History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |