Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… Kit-Cat, and the ‘polite’ norms that its members fashioned and then disseminated nationwide through journals such as The Spectator (1711-12, 1714), profoundly shaped the course of British sociability and national identity. The dates of the … of open conversation on the basis of a pretended equality between men of vastly differing ranks and fortunes. 2 . The Spectator (vol. 1, no.9, 10 March 1711) 3 . George Stepney to Jacob Tonson, 24 March 1703, in The Gentleman’s Magazine … design (cf. Stowe Gardens). Meanwhile, through Tonson’s scholarly editions of Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton, the Spectator essays of Joseph Addison (1672-1719) on literary criticism, and the production of patriotic verse in epic mode, …
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