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In time, the language of treacherous objects which developed in the Jacobite era subsided into kitsch as less controversial souvenirs of memory and exchange had done. This was logical enough: as the risk of prosecution for Jacobite sympathies declined, so too did the tendency to exchange commitments and ideas through objects in a defined, ritualistic way. The looseness and variability of sentiment took over, and with it the reification of charisma beyond politics and oppositional memorialization into kitsch and memory as a marketplace or lieu, no longer lived but remembered in various places and through various things, constructed to make sense of defeat rather than displayed, circulated and trafficked in prospect — or hope — of victory. Objects began to lose the atmosphere of tension through which they had previously been exchanged. Even cant diminished as a language of challenge to order, and the hidden allusive words or phrases of thieves, radicals and Jacobites subsided into slang for less focused group purposes, such as the use of buckish cant to allow sexual terms to be mentioned in front of ladies.1
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Pittock, M. (2013). Postscript: The Making of Memory. In: Material Culture and Sedition, 1688–1760. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137278098_6
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