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The fictional publisher of Tobias Smollett’s Humphry Clinker (1771) assures its fictional author that “if you should be sentenced to the pillory, your fortune is made.” The pillory was used to punish minor offenders including cheats, liars, rioters and homosexuals, by shaming them in public, but, as regards literary offences, it was typically used for sedition. Offenders were commonly pelted by the crowd with rotten eggs and fruit, dead cats and dogs, or mud and in extreme cases with stones t... |
