Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]
… twin of polite society. Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Concepts > Publicity Mots-clés Clans Gentleman Masculinity Rake Violence Historians have pondered the concomitant if not paradoxical entanglement of politeness and libertine behavior in … 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 … Anglo-French Connection (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2019), p. 19. 2 . Daniel Statt, ‘The Case of the Mohocks: Rake Violence in Augustan London’, Social History (vol. 20, n° 2, 1995), p. 181. 3 . The London Gazette, March 18th, 1711-12. …
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