Daniel Defoe’s Social Networks [ Art and Literature / Association ]
… bonds of friendship that animated the duumvirate of Godolphin and Marlborough, or those that made the Whig Kit-Cat club such an effective unit for cultural and political advocacy, Defoe’s connection with Harley remained bound to the … Friendship and the Reign of Anne (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017); Ophelia Field, The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation (London: Harper, 2008). Defoe’s family and civic ties were as thin as his … in support of the British union for Harley. (Backsheider 235-40) Unlike many of his fellow writers, Defoe was not a clubbable man. He was not a member of genteel clubs of literati such as the Kit-Cats or Addison’s circle at Button’s …
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