| Abstract: | The purpose of this paper is examine the concept of "well-educated" person as theorized in the eighteenth-century literature. 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 Cooer, Third Earl of Shaftsbury, Oliver Goldsmith, John Lock, 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. |
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