Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]
… Dashwood rose to infamy, providing tinder for the fertile imagination of the hack writers of Grub Street and thus the public at large. His influence on the club scene of eighteenth-century London extends far beyond the Brotherhood, … (Lord 91). 11 . Bruce Redford, Dilettanti. The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2008), p. 6. 12 . The letter to Horace Mann on April 14th 1743 can be found in the digitized Yale Edition … difficult to ascertain in what direction, if any, political membership went. While Redford makes them out to show ‘a republican political genealogy’ (3), Lord claims they drew their members from all political strata alike (94). In general, …
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