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Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]

… Résumé In the absence of fully developed markets, patronage (the relation between someone able to dispense something with social or economic value, such as money, … literature – could be realized. Generally speaking, the eighteenth century sees the gradual replacement of traditional patronage (a rich aristocrat or churchman being a patron to an artist) with more market-oriented models that distributed … both financial and cultural investments and rewards more broadly. This entry will concentrate mainly on literary patronage as the type in which these changes manifested most strongly, and where they were most directly reflected upon …

Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]

… With members drawn exclusively from one Whig faction, yet with foundations in the literary world, it became a hub of patronage along lines of intellectual friendship rather than kinship, an informal venue of political opposition, and a … many others. People > Association Practices > Associational culture Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Club Whig Patronage Friendship Addison Tonson The Kit-Cat Club (c.1690s-c.1720) was one of the earliest and most influential London … With members drawn exclusively from one Whig faction, yet with foundations in the literary world, it became a hub of patronage along lines of intellectual friendship rather than kinship, an informal venue of political opposition, and a …

Salons [ Associational culture ]

… sites for literary and philosophical discussion, and notably, for men of letters to network and secure protections and patronage. Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Salon Enlightenment Philosophes Salon hostess France networks Patronage The salon is one of the most recognizable practices of sociability of the French Enlightenment, even if the … the state-sponsored institutions of letters’. 11   Salons were key sites for men of letters to secure protections and patronage from influential aristocrats, vie for official positions, and even campaign for election to the academies . At …

James, Duke of York and Albany (and court culture in Edinburgh) [ Aristocracy / Cities ]

… > Aristocracy Places > Cities Mots-clés Court Edinburgh Scotland New elite Duke of York and Albany Reformed society Patronage James of York and Albany came with his family and court to Edinburgh for two stays between 1679 and 1682, which … his court moved in with him or lived in the vicinity played a central part in the promotion of the royal authority and patronage. The courtiers recovered their traditional status as the town’s elite and became the examples to follow, while … James VII Duke and King of Scots (Edinburgh: John Donald, 2014). Ouston, Hugh, ‘York in Edinburgh: James VII and the Patronage of Learning in Scotland, 1679-1688‘, in Allan, David, Prudence and Patronage: The Politics of Culture in …

Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]

… of eighteenth-century literature. Places > Cities Concepts > Literary & Artistic genres Mots-clés book market Satire Patronage commercialization Alexander Pope The term ‘Grub Street’ is one of the most loaded in the eighteenth-century … popular success like the novels by Defoe or Richardson, which made their authors money without resorting to the residual patronage that is still contained in publishing by subscription. Whether he liked it or not, Pope was a part of the … provide writers with a steady income, but which had already lost the traditional financial support through aristocratic patronage. As Thomas Macaulay writes about Samuel Johnson in 1831: ‘Johnson came up to London precisely at the time when …

William Blake [ Art and Literature ]

… People > Art and Literature Mots-clés poetry Art Annotations Conversation Letters Friendship Salons Exhibitions Patronage Marketplace William Blake (1757-1827) was born into a dissenting family at 28 Broad Street in Soho (London) … of circles are characteristic of the changes in the marketplace. In the late eighteenth century, the old system of patronage, where artists were sponsored, was replaced by a commercial culture where works were purchased rather than … about Blake and sociability. … poetry … Art … Annotations … Conversation … Letters … Friendship … Salons … Exhibitions … Patronage … Marketplace … William Blake …