Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… of aspects of 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, … discretion. John Arbuthnot was famously as prolific with providing such hints as he was unconcerned with getting authorial credit for them. This makes his role in the Scriblerian project one of the most fascinating particularly … by turns, conversing interchangeably, and walking down hand in hand to posterity; not in the stiff forms of learned Authors, flattering each other, and setting the rest of mankind at nought: but in a free, unimportant, natural, easy …
Academies | Friendship | Satire
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