Kit-Cat Club
[ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… opposition, and a prototype for Dr Johnson’s Club, among many others. People > Association Practices > Associational culture Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Friendship Merchants Patronage Whigs The Kit-Cat Club (c.1690s-c.1720) … (1675-1749) and his anti-Walpole faction at Stowe. Modus Operandi The Kit-Cat was part of a re-centring of British culture and sociability away from the Court in the pre-Georgian period. Their patronage was usually by means of … Oudenarde in 1708, and a lavish edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1717). Impact The Club’s impact was felt in Britain’s culture, politics and practices of sociability. Despite its focus on catalysing a cultural renaissance, however, many of …
… au tournant des Lumières (Paris : Champion, 2018) Hersant, Marc, 'Le sens de la plainte : Voltaire épistolier et la culture de la sociabilité', L’Esprit Créateur (vol. 57, n° 2, Summer 2017), p. 122-134. François Jacob, Voltaire (Paris : … au tournant des Lumières (Paris : Champion, 2018) Hersant, Marc, 'Le sens de la plainte : Voltaire épistolier et la culture de la sociabilité', L’Esprit Créateur (vol. 57, n° 2, Summer 2017), p. 122-134. François Jacob, Voltaire (Paris : …
… discussion, and notably, for men of letters to network and secure protections and patronage. Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Enlightenment France Gaming Networks Patronage The salon is one of the most recognizable practices of … by the term ‘salon’ until the nineteenth century. 1 A pillar of French literary, philosophical, and aristocratic culture throughout the Ancien Régime , the practice has its origins in the elite society of seventeenth-century France. 1 … on the new works that writers would try out in the salons. As DeJean puts it, ‘At no other time in the history of French culture has literary criticism been so thoroughly integrated into the daily life’ of the social elite. (DeJean 383) 4 . …
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… (Bentley, The Stranger from Paradise, 110). See also Jon Mee, Enthusiasm and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), ch. 6. 11 . Joseph Viscomi, Blake and the Idea of … 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 commissioned. Some of Blake’s poetic works were stocked in Johnson’s …
Patronage
[ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… his art in a middle ground between the high-art original and the mass-produced commodity of the ever-expanding print culture. Lastly, the creation of music underwent comparable changes, particularly towards the end of the century. While …
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