Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… sociability. The inflamed 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 … 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 that ‘Grubstreet Papers about [the Mohocks] fly like Lightning’ (336). His belief that … of frightful rumors is the tense political situation in 1712, and the propensity of both Whigs and Tories to use the press as a vehicle for their reciprocal criticisms. According to Statt, Tory accounts such as The Mohocks Revel (1712) …
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