The Concept of the "Well-Educated" Person in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of the “well-educated” person as theorized in the literature of the eighteenth-century , Novels and periodical essays by writers such as Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield, Daniel Defoe, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Anthony Ashley Coooer, Third Earl of Shaftsbury, Oliver Goldsmith, John Locke, Fanny Burney and Mary Wollstonecraft are referred to as sources for various eighteenth-century views on the characteristics of the ideal "well-educated” person and his duties to society.
Description
Program year: 1985/1986Digitized from print original stored in HDR
Subject
"well-educated" personHenry Fielding
Samuel Johnson
Philip Dormer Stanhope
Daniel Defoe
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Joseph Addison
Sir Richard Steele
Anthony Ashley Cooper
Oliver Goldsmith
John Locke
Fanny Burney
Mary Wollstonecraft
Citation
Lovelace, Lisa L. (1986). The Concept of the "Well-Educated" Person in Eighteenth-Century English Literature. University Undergraduate Fellow. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /CAPSTONE -DavisF _1991.