Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Foreword: Professor Dick Hobbs.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Devilry, Deviance, and Public Sphere: The Social Discovery of Moral Panic in Eighteenth Century London.- Chapter 2: The shaping of opinion: Literacy, media, and folk devils in eighteenth-century London.- Chapter 3: This great and monstrous thing, called London.- Chapter 4: Who has not trembled at the Mohocks name? Panic on the streets, 1712.- Chapter 5: Kill-grief and Comfort: Madame Geneva and the London gin panic, 1720-1751.- Chapter 6: Morality amid monstrosity: The London Monster panic, 1790.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.