Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… for its own use. The Kit-Cat was a space of exclusive membership, designed to build social capital, yet of open conversation on the basis of a pretended equality between men of vastly differing ranks and fortunes. 2 . The Spectator … Kit-Cat authors. 13 They conceived of literature as sociable – something to be composed collaboratively or inspired by conversation, then to be read, heard, or otherwise consumed collectively. Alongside subscriptions, the Kit-Cat Club made …
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