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

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.