Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-235) and index