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

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.