Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… Dictionnaire universel (1690) defined the academy as an ‘assembly of the educated classes, where science and the fine arts are cultivated.’ In France, their association with the crown—academies were established by letters patent—conferred … and societies. In the first years of the eighteenth century, however, the term reappeared, morphing to include the arts (the Academy of Painting, founded in 1711, is one example) 1 : British literary and artistic associations, though labelled societies or academies, compared more closely with the informal Italian model. In …
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