Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… Joseph Addison (1672-1719) on literary criticism, and the production of patriotic verse in epic mode, they bolstered the self-confidence of English literature. This patriotic aesthetic must be inferred in the absence of a manifesto, and was … Duke of Marlborough (1650-1722), toasting his daughters and admitting his military colleagues as members, even as he himself remained aloof from membership. 9 . The Golden Age Revers’d (London: 1703) In 1703, the Kit-Cat moved to The … then to be 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 …
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