Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… thus provides an insight not only into the ways a nearly unregulated press could politicize such an issue, inciting a city-wide panic in the process, but also into the anxieties of eighteenth-century London, which, rather than revolving … on an organized, debauched, and altogether darker twin of polite society. Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Concepts > Publicity Mots-clés Clans Gentleman Masculinity Rake Violence Historians have pondered the concomitant if not paradoxical … landscape, rather than mere violent chaos; and it is to this anxiety that the papers predominantly appealed, fermenting city-wide panic. 8 . E.J. Burford and Joy Wotton, Private Vices. Public Virtues: Bawdry in London from Elizabethan Time …
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