Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… 8 Moreover, the interrogations about hypocritical and religious ‘cant’ did not erase the older meanings of the term. As satires ridiculing moral hypocrites were published throughout the century, so were dictionaries of ‘cant’, that is, … Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 147. 11 . See Vic Gatrell, ‘The Age of Cant’, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London (London: Atlantic Books, 2006), p. 435-482. 12 . See George Canning, William Frere et … Studies ( vol. 17, n° 3, Spring 1984), p. 284-307. Bullard, Paddy, ‘The Scriblerian Mock-Arts: Pseudo Technical Satire in Swift and his Contemporaries‘, Studies in Philology (vol. 110, n° 3, 2013), p. 611-636. Martinez, Marc et …
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