Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… p. ii-vi. In spite of this justification, Grose’s Dictionary was mostly motivated by commercial opportunism as books dealing with the underworld and its excesses were extremely popular. 10 The literature dedicated to the ‘canting … 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 al., ‘New Morality’, originally published in The … Cambridge University Press, 1991). Heller-Roazen, Daniel, Dark Tongues. The Art of Rogues and Riddlers (New York: Zone Books, 2013). Kinservik, Matthew J., ‘The Censorship of Samuel Foote's The Minor (1760): Stage Controversy in the …
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