Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… is central to the Scriblerian idea of (collective) creation. The Scriblerians would generously provide each other with creative ideas to be used together or at each member’s discretion, developing a kind of intellectual and creative … society and culture that were worthy of criticism and satire. Its real existence as an actual practice – authors meeting with the self-conception that they were doing so as part of a club – lasted only for less than a year, starting in the spring of 1714, and ending with Jonathan Swift’s move to Ireland in November of that same year, but the ‘Scriblerian spirit’ that was developed in …
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