Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… into the context of a club-like structure, thereby creating a curious case of asocial sociability. The inflamed public imagination thus provides an insight not only into the ways a nearly unregulated press could politicize such an issue, … there may be ‘no Truth or very little in the whole Story’ (336) indicates that, excited by Grubstreet journalism, public imagination of the Mohocks far eclipsed actual events. In the rumor-fueled perception of the public, the Mohocks were a … only generate fear such as the one readily apparent in Swift’s or Lady Strafford’s writings, but captured the literary imagination as well. Aside from Trivia , John Gay’s first play, The Mohocks (1712), also made heavy use of the …
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