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Patronage
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… noblesse oblige or disinterested generosity. It was in effect an ‘economic’ arrangement that provided benefits to both parties’. 3 Both gain cultural recognition in this exchange. The values exchanged in this ‘economy’ of patronage are …
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Kit-Cat Club
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… instead fading away by 1720 thanks to various founders’ deaths, rural retirements, and late marriages. Private house parties took on the Kit-Cat’s political functions, 11 while elderly members such as Congreve and Tonson continued to …