Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… Literary Patronage’, Eighteenth-Century Studies (vol. 7, n° 4, 1974), p. 461. 3 . Dustin Griffin, Literary Patronage in England, 1650–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 10. Oliver Goldsmith and Charles Churchill are among … myth fostered by disappointed writers in later years who assumed that things must have been better in the past, and that England must have once been as enlightened in this respect as Louis XIV’s France. (Griffin 10) 5 . Arthur Simons Collins, … by the writers of the time, but also hotly debated. Korshin claims that the intellectual community in eighteenth-century England was ‘tantalized’ by the subject (453). One of the writers and critics who, for many of his contemporaries, came …
Aristocracy | Art | Commerce | Exhibitions | Literature | Patronage | Subscription
Encyclopedia