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Bernard Mandeville's "A Modest Defence of Publick Stews"

Bernard Mandeville's "A Modest Defence of Publick Stews": Prostitution and Its Discontents in Early Georgian England

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Hardback Published on: 23/05/2006
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Synopsis

In this study of Bernard Mandeville's A Modest Defence of Publick Stews , Irwin Primer breaks new ground by arguing that in addition to being an advocation for the establishment of state-regulated houses of prostitution, Mandeville's writing is also a highly polished work of literature.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
  • ISBN: 9781403971661
  • Number of pages: 208
  • Dimensions: 240 x 164 x 17 mm
  • Weight: 444g
  • Languages: English