Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… key aspects of its legacy. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Academies Friendship Satire The Scriblerus Club was much less a formalized social practice, let alone a social institution like the Kit-Cat … a shared sense of humour as well as a shared sense of aspects of society and culture that were worthy of criticism and satire. Its real existence as an actual practice – authors meeting with the self-conception that they were doing so as … and then a captain of several ships , better known as Gulliver’s Travels , to his bookseller. While much of the book’s satire is as Swiftian as it gets, the third book carries the most obviously Scriblerian overtones, with its mocking of …
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