Uses of education Readings in Enlightenment in England

Introduction: What is education for? -- Hewers of wood and drawers of water. Mandeville and Smith -- Polite and British education. Chesterfield and Sheridan -- "Strangers to refinement". British education and Sparta, 1740-1790 -- Women's time. Macaulay, Edgeworth, Wollstonecraft.

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Main Author Bygrave, Stephen
Format Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Lewisburg Pa Bucknell University Press 2009
SeriesThe Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
Subjects
Erziehungsphilosophie
Geschichte (Histor)
Großbritannien
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Summary:Introduction: What is education for? -- Hewers of wood and drawers of water. Mandeville and Smith -- Polite and British education. Chesterfield and Sheridan -- "Strangers to refinement". British education and Sparta, 1740-1790 -- Women's time. Macaulay, Edgeworth, Wollstonecraft.
ISBN:9780838757253
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