Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… Gallery, London, NPG D11802, circa 1683-1729. Résumé Early modern literary academies were spaces of in-person and epistolary interaction and intellectual sociability. From the highly institutionalised royal academies to the academies … facets of relationships, but also the inherent logistics of communicating over distances. 18 Arcadia engendered a polite epistolary sociability through its system of communication grounded in a pastoral universe: members adopted unique … maintaining social relations: first contact might be established through written communication or recommendation, with epistolary relationships deepening with the passing of years. But it was existing friendships that most often led to …
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