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… much less a formalized social practice, let alone a social institution like the Kit-Cat Club and much more a concept of artistic creativity that derived from a shared sense of humour as well as a shared sense of aspects of society and … has therefore been eclipsed in the minds of both eighteenth-century critics and contemporary scholars by the later, and artistically more successful works. This was the fragmentary text, The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus , published in 1741 …
… bystanders, or intruders, or even as mad. This is Bethlem. But as Bedlam, the same situation was utilised by writers and artists, and within the wider public imagination, as a mirror, albeit a strange and distorted one, on what passed for a …