It’s so interesting because if you look at F Scott Fitzgerald – I’m thinking about Tender is the Night – by then you really have this obsession with sunbathing.
Well, the discovery of the Riviera at the turn of the 20th century was a revolution in habits. And although one thinks it was a literary circle, it was the moneyed set who went to southern France and northern Italy, and made it their home. That was taken up in the literature of the time and became part of the new culture.
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