Lettering Young Readers in the Dutch Enlightenment: Literacy, Agency and Progress in Eighteenth-Century Children's Books by Feike Dietz (review)

Abstract

his thoroughly researched work analyzes eighteenth-century Dutch children’s literature and convincingly places it within several interrelated contexts: the political and economic conditions of the Dutch Republic, Enlightenment epistemology and pedagogy, the transnational nature of children’s literature of the period and, perhaps most importantly, the concept of children’s agency. The work is thus ambitious and wide-ranging in its implications