… polite culture may even have enhanced the anxiety surrounding false friendship. This was a time when manners, language, gestures, and deportment were increasingly regulated and expected to conform to certain cultural standards. However, this …
Kit-Cat Club
[ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… read, heard, or otherwise consumed collectively. Alongside subscriptions, the Kit-Cat Club made other self-publicising gestures: paying collectively for Dryden’s funeral in 1700, a musical talent competition based around The Judgement of …