The Blessings of Polygamy displayed, in an affectionate address to the Rev. Martin Madan; occasioned by his late work, entitled Thelyphthora, or, a treatise on female ruin.

HILL, Richard.

Edité par Sold by J. Mathews, in the Strand; C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and by J. Eddowes, in Shrewsbury. 1781, 1781

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171, [1]p, errata slip. 8vo. A clean, large, uncut, partially unopened copy in original boards; clean tear without loss to H4, sl. dusting to boards, minor cracking to joints at head & tail of spine. ESTC T97083. 'Madan had begun life as a libertine and a lawyer, but after a religious conversion, he took orders. In the 1750s he became chaplain to the Lock Hospital, which tended to stress the cure of disease rather than the reformation of manners. After ten years as chaplain, Madan evidently became overwhelmed by the sense that neither sending a few women to the Magdalen Hospital nor locking up a great many more from time to time in a house of correction, where they helped to corrupt each other and came out more abandoned, would solve the problem of prostitution. Instead a way had to be found to discourage men from seducing girls in the first place. The answer he hit upon was mandatory polygamy - oblige every man to marry every girl he seduced. He began to talk about it to his friends, and, after fifteen years of studying the matter, Madan in 1780 published his Thelypthora, or a Treatise on Female Ruin to the delight of London's libertines and the pained shock of his evangelical friends.' ref: Sex, Gender, and Sexual Identity in Modern Culture: Male Sodomy and Female Prostitution in Enlightenment. Randolph Trumbach. University of Texas Press. 1991. In this response Richard Hill writes that 'this idea the erroneousness of which I shall endeavour to prove in various undeniable instances, has led you to offer the greatest violence to almost every text of scripture you have produced from the gospels and epistles'.

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• Titre: The Blessings of Polygamy displayed, in an affectionate address to the Rev. Martin Madan; occasioned by his late work, entitled Thelyphthora, or, a treatise on female ruin.
• Éditeur: Sold by J. Mathews, in the Strand; C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and by J. Eddowes, in Shrewsbury. 1781
• Date de parution: 1781
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
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