Cant [ Language & Speech ]
… between ‘cant’ and hypocrisy, the notion played an important role in debates about sincerity, sensibility and authenticity in social interactions during the long eighteenth century. Ideal models of sociability required trust in the means … vol. 1: 1567-1784 (Cambridge: 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 …
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