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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Chastity and Courage2 Bernard Mandeville’s Anatomy of HonourPrologue: Rotterdam, Leyden and London1 Mandeville’s Continental Background1 Mandeville’s Female Voices1 The Century of Sex2 The Virgin Unmask’d3 Female Education. “What Girls Should Do with Latin?”2 The Oxford Gentleman and Philopirio1 Living Dead and Public Benefactors2 The Duel of Honour3 Medicine and Philosophy: The Hypp’d Nation3 The Political Offspring of Pride1 Powerful Persuasions2 Men of Fashion, Bullies in Morality3 Natural and Artificial Courage3 Politeness and Virtue1 Mandeville’s Rise to Fame2 Hypocrisy and Self-deception3 The Ticklish Foundation of Female Virtue4 Cleomenes and Horatio1 Portrait of a Complete Gentleman2 Self-liking and the Origin of Politeness3 A Conjectural History of Sociability6 Modern Honour and the Cult of the Self1 Martial Virtue2 The History of Pride3 Mandeville’s ChallengeConclusionsBibliographyIndex