Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… Tu, the Bugles, or the Damned Crew, a group of ‘gentlemen’ called the Mohocks was rumored to have terrorized London’s streets in the Spring of 1712. While little evidence exists for the Mohocks being an organized group with a shared motif … twin of polite society. Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Concepts > Publicity Keywords Clans Gentleman Masculinity Rake Violence Historians have pondered the concomitant if not paradoxical entanglement of politeness and libertine behavior in … darker picture of London’s manner-focused society. In the Spring of 1712, the Mohocks ‘galvanized fears of the sort of street violence that was endemic in early modern London’ (Statt 179), eliciting contemporary responses ranging from the …
Clans | Gentleman | Masculinity | Rake | Violence
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