Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… through social relationships and closely conformed in structure to literary salons. In England, meanwhile, until the beginning of the seventeenth century, academies referred to a form of informal ‘voluntary association,’ much like … yet disparate forms of sociability.’ (Roche 47) 1 . Clark Peter, British clubs and societies 1580-1800: the origins of an associational world (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 10-11. 2 . Jean Boutier, Brigitte Marin et … thus the forums for ‘learned elocution’ and cultured conversation. 7 Georg Simmel claimed that sociability finds its origin in the internal ‘impulses’ driven by ‘individual sentiment and contentment,’ and is accomplished through ‘pure …
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