Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PoetEleg (Aestheticization of Life and Cosmopolitan Modernity: The Poetics of Elegance in the Long 19th Century)

By the 18th century, social origin had begun to lose its determinant power in the social order in European societies. New forms of elites rose to elevated positions; they included not only people of noble birth, but also the nouveaux riches and those who had acquired high...