Pride, Manners, and Morals

Andrea Branchi, Ph.D., teaches for American university programs in Italy and writes for Italian and international producers of historical documentaries. He has published a monograph and several articles on Bernard Mandeville.

Acknowledgments



Introduction

 1 Chastity and Courage

 2 Bernard Mandeville’s Anatomy of Honour



Prologue: Rotterdam, Leyden and London

 1 Mandeville’s Continental Background



1 Mandeville’s Female Voices

 1 The Century of Sex

 2 The Virgin Unmask’d

 3 Female Education. “What Girls Should Do with Latin?”



2 The Oxford Gentleman and Philopirio

 1 Living Dead and Public Benefactors

 2 The Duel of Honour

 3 Medicine and Philosophy: The Hypp’d Nation



3 The Political Offspring of Pride

 1 Powerful Persuasions

 2 Men of Fashion, Bullies in Morality

 3 Natural and Artificial Courage



3 Politeness and Virtue

 1 Mandeville’s Rise to Fame

 2 Hypocrisy and Self-deception

 3 The Ticklish Foundation of Female Virtue



4 Cleomenes and Horatio

 1 Portrait of a Complete Gentleman

 2 Self-liking and the Origin of Politeness

 3 A Conjectural History of Sociability



6 Modern Honour and the Cult of the Self

 1 Martial Virtue

 2 The History of Pride

 3 Mandeville’s Challenge



Conclusions

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Index