Ned Ward [ Commerce / Art and Literature ]
… himself – he also offers a glimpse of sociability centring on printed texts and the exercise of wit, fuelled by the consumption of alcohol in the period’s public houses. Taken together, Ward’s life and works are a reminder that the ideal … read. Ward produced several miscellanies – a genre of text that offers clues to sociable authorship and the collective consumption of texts. 10 He contributed to The Diverting Muse, or, Universal Medly (1707), for example, which cheerfully … with drinking a health to the Queen – another common characteristic of Ward’s publications that indicates their sociable consumption. 13 Moreover, Ward undoubtedly practised this kind of sociability himself. Not only did he ply a simultaneous …
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