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Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… Abstract Early modern literary academies were spaces of in-person and epistolary interaction and intellectual sociability. From the highly institutionalised royal academies to the academies salonnières of Italy, they incarnated the practices of the educated, intellectual classes in Europe. In Italy, Arcadia was a prime example of how academies came to be defined as spaces of … Practices > Associational culture Keywords Academy England Arcadia Association Italy France Social network Intellectual circle Meeting Rome Salon The Early Modern era saw literary academies woven liberally into the urban fabric of European …

Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… provide each other with creative ideas to be used together or at each member’s discretion, developing a kind of intellectual and creative sociability that is one of the key aspects of its legacy. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Keywords Academy England Meeting Association Satire Social network Intellectual circle Club Friendship Collaboration Alexander Pope Jonathan Swift The Scriblerus Club was much less a formalized social …

Percy Shelley (the sociable nightingale) [ Art and Literature ]

… workings of poetic influence, implicitly acknowledging the creative potential of sociability. Navigating through many circles, in Marlow, London (in Hunt’s ‘Cockney school’) and in Pisa, Shelley also formed intense and durable friendships, … sent the fair copy of ‘Julian and Maddalo’ to Hunt from Italy as an attempt to reproduce ‘something of the sense of intellectual exchange so important to the world Hunt created around himself.’ 6  For Donald H. Reiman, the circle was … in Leghorn, Shelley had become again a solitary ‘spider’ trapped in a ‘soft cell’ – a metaphor for both physical and intellectual isolation – far from the members of the Cockney school he duly enumerates later in the poem, by whom Shelley …

John Keats [ Art and Literature ]

… but he was certainly not friendless. Although his work received little public recognition during his lifetime, his close circle of friends in England strove to defend his genius and preserve his memory for posterity. Friendship was always … such meetings, Keats’s letter weaves a tapestry of motley social experience, giving us a vibrant sense of the intellectual crosscurrents, as well as the private prejudices and tensions, which characterized London literary life in … (an image partly indebted to Shelley’s 1821 elegy, Adonais ). Yet, while insisting on his moral uprightness and the intellectually probing nature of his work, Milnes’s biography also reinforced the sense that Keats’s case was one of …

Dositej Obradović [ Travel ]

… Abstract Dositej Obradović (1739/41-1811) , Serbia’s foremost enlightener, was able to carry out reforms thanks to his circle of friends and the ties he established among Serbs were a direct consequence of his stay in London. In the first … in Norwich. Attending these circles was a great stimulus for Obradović, who thus understood how British sociability and intellectual circles led to the spread of new ideas. Once he was back among the Serbs, he put this newly acquired … 2015), p. 77-91. But the sociability that Obradović experienced among Livie’s friends was not limited to that of the intellectuals and businessmen of the Scottish community in London, but also and perhaps more strikingly, had to do with …