Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… public imagination thus provides an insight not only into the ways a nearly unregulated press could politicize such an issue, inciting a city-wide panic in the process, but also into the anxieties of eighteenth-century London, which, rather … ranging from the political to the literary, culminating in a royal proclamation on March 18 th 1712, whereby Queen Anne issued a reward of one hundred pounds to aid in the discovery of a number of ‘evil-dispos’d Persons, who have combin’d … […] I came home in a Chair for fear of te Mohocks’ (336). In spite of the general air of anxiety surrounding the Mohock issue in Swift’s Journal , he showed himself keenly aware of the influence exacted by the press, asserting on March 12 th …
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