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Bernard Mandeville’s “A Modest Defence of Publick Stews”

Prostitution and Its Discontents in Early Georgian England
By:I. Primer
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781403971661
eText ISBN:9781403984609
Edition:0
Copyright:2006
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.