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

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

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Literary CriticismBritish History

ISBN10: 1349533092
ISBN13: 9781349533091
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: May 23 2006
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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