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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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Breeding Before Biology
- Chapter 1. The Rules of Resemblance
- Chapter 2. Bent
- Chapter 3. Cultures of Improvement
- Chapter 4. A Natural History of Inequality
- Chapter 5. Blots on the Landscape
- Chapter 6. Shibboleths
- Notes
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index