Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… of sociability from the Restoration to the long eighteenth century. 1 Oftentimes, however, considerations regarding the influences of rakish behavior center predominantly on the sexual side of libertinism rather than its more violent … 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 that ‘Grubstreet Papers about [the Mohocks] fly like Lightning’ …
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