Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… on literary criticism, and the production of patriotic verse in epic mode, they bolstered the self-confidence of English literature. This patriotic aesthetic must be inferred in the absence of a manifesto, and was shared by some non-Kit-Cats, … Act. Several literary productions were also direct collaborations between Kit-Cat authors. 13 They conceived of literature as sociable – something to be composed collaboratively or inspired by conversation, then to be read, heard, or … little influence on generations immediately following, and they failed to foresee the advent of less sociable forms of literature such as the novel or Romantic lyric. Politically, the Club’s impact was far greater, albeit hard to separate …
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