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Bernard Mandeville's "A modest defence of publick stews" : prostitution and its discontents in early Georgian England /
In A Modest Defence of Publick Stews (1724) its reputed author Dr. Bernard Mandeville argues that the best solution to the problems of prostitution (with its related evils of venereal disease, infanticide and other crimes) is not to stamp it out (an impossibility) but to legalize it and regulate it...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Texts
- Mandeville's Fable of the Bees, Remark (H.), (1714)
- Fable of the Bees, from Remark (N.) (added, 1723)
- A Modest Defence of Publick Stews (1724B edition)
- The "Answer" (from A Modest Defence ..., 1725)
- From A Collection of Chirugical Tracts (1740)
- Regulated stews, recommended (1) An anonymous article from The Gentlemen's Magazine, col. 19 (July 1749), pp. 314-15
- Regulated stews, recommended (2). Anonymous [from] Reflections Arising from the Immorality of the Present Age ... (London, Printed for M. Cooper ... 1756)
- Part II: Commentaries
- Audience
- Anonymity and the Question of Authorship
- Early Critics of A Modest Defence
- Some Twentieth-Century Views on A Modest Defence
- Some Modern Translations
- Prostitution: The Modern Debate
- Mandeville's Language of Sexuality
- The "Low" in Society and Literature
- Economic Aspects of A Modest Defence
- Marriage
- Contexts of the Law
- A Note on the Apologia pro Lena by George Buchanan
- Part III: Text of the First Edition, 1724A.