Breeding : : A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century / / Jenny Davidson.
The Enlightenment commitment to reason naturally gave rise to a belief in the perfectibility of man. Influenced by John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, many eighteenth-century writers argued that the proper education and upbringing¿breeding¿could make any man a member of the cultural elite. Yet eve...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
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