BW --- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Query about _A Modest Defence of
> Publick Stews_ (1724)
> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:22:37 -0700
> From: Robert Folkenflik
> <rfolkenf at BENFRANKLIN.HNET.UCI.EDU>
> Reply-To: 18th Century Interdisciplinary Discussion
> <C18-L at lists.psu.edu>
> To: C18-L at LISTS.PSU.EDU
>
> Yes, Phil Porney, the "lover of prostitutes" is an
> ironic pseudoonym
> (though not acronym), but Mr. Porney, who shows up
> as the author of a
> number of works, seems to have been a French teacher
> and translator.
>
>
> Robert Folkenflik
> Professor of English
> University of California
> Irvine, CA 92697
>
>
> On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, John Dussinger wrote:
>
> Distinguished List,
>
> I have yet another question about an anonymous
> work-- _A Modest Defence
> of Publick Stews_ (1724). In my youth I had always
> assumed that it was
> written by Bernard Mandeville, along with all the
> ironic play of his
> _Fable of the Bees_ toward awakening the English
> public to the economic
> benefits of vice, whatever the moral outrage
> resulting from these
> revelations. In the ODNB, M.M. Goldsmith leaves
> open the question of
> whether Mandeville was the author of _A Modest
> Defence_ and cites a
> Lawrence Lefever as a possible alternative. Yet in
> ECCO the digital
> copies of the original microfilm texts come up with
> "Phil-porney" as the
> author, surely an ironic acronym, but nevertheless
> not mentioned in the
> ODNB article on Bernard Mandeville.
>
> Can anyone help clarify whether we should give up
> entirely the idea of
> Mandeville as the author of this piece on public
> whorehouses? If so, can
> we safely attribute it to some other author and
> maybe explain why ESTC
> settled with that "Phil-porney" signature to the
> Dedication?
>
> JD
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