''The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats'' is a biannual

review journal A review article is an article that summarizes the current state of understanding on a topic within a certain discipline. A review article is generally considered a secondary source since it may analyze and discuss the method and conclusions i ...

addressing English literature. It covers scholarly essays, book chapters, and books about English dramatists, poets, and novelists, as well as history and culture from the

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through the late eighteenth century. The journal also publishes literary and historical notes, including discussion of recent bibliographic transactions pertaining to the period. It was established as ''The Scriblerian'' in 1968 at

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(by Roy Wolper, Peter A. Tasch, and Arthur J. Weitzman) and changed its name to include the Kit-Cats in 1971 to reflect initial coverage of scholarship about the

Scriblerus Club The Scriblerus Club was an informal association of authors, based in London, that came together in the early 18th century. They were prominent figures in the Augustan Age of English letters. The nucleus of the club included the satirists Jonathan ...

and

Kit-Cat Club The Kit-Cat Club (sometimes Kit Kat Club) was an early 18th-century English club in London with strong political and literary associations. Members of the club were committed Whigs. They met at the Trumpet tavern in London and at Water Oakley ...

respectively. By 1979 it expanded its coverage again, and published such texts as

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's ''Pastorals''.

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