β Scribed by James Ryland
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
For centuries readers have admired the writer who wields his pen like a sword - an Aristophanes, a Rabelais, a Montaigne, a Swift. Using ribaldry, satire and irony in varying proportions, such writers pierce the thick, comfortable hide of society and uncover, predictably, the corruption and hypocrisy that characterize the life of man in commercial society. Though a lesser talent than any of these literary giants, Bernard MandeΒ ville is nevertheless a member of their class. The crucial year in the emergence of his reputation was 1723, the year in which he added his controversial Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools to his Fable of the Bees. From that point on he became one of the most reviled targets of the public guardians of morality and religion; for some he appeared to be truly the Devil incarnate, Mandevil, as Fielding and others spelled it. This reputation was attached to his name well into the nineteenth centuΒ ry. In a diary entry for June 1812 Henry Crabb Robinson recorded the following conversation with the elderly Mrs. Buller: "She received me with a smile, and allowed me to touch her hand. 'What are you reading, Mr. Robinson?' she said. 'The wickedest cleverest book in the English language, if you chance to know it. ' - 'I have known the "Fable of the Bees" more than fifty years. ' She was right in her guess.;Vichert, G.S. Bernard Mandeville's The virgin unmask'd. -- Rousseau, G.S. Mandeville and Europe. -- Cook, R.I. The great leviathan of lechery. -- Jack, M.R. Religion and ethics in Mandeville. -- James, E.D. Faith, sincerity and morality. -- Speck, W.A. Mandeville and the eutopia seated in the brain. -- Dickinson, H.T. The politics of Bernard Mandeville. -- Gunn, J.A.W. Mandeville and Wither. -- Moore, J.R. Mandeville and Defoe. -- Primer, I. Mandeville and Shaftesbury. -- Aldridge, A.O. Mandeville and Voltaire. -- Adolph, R. What pierces or strikes. -- Hopkins, R.H. The cant of social compromise. -- Pinkus, P. Mandeville's paradox.
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