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Lettering Young Readers in the Dutch Enlightenment - Literacy, Agency and Progress in Eighteenth-Century Children's Books (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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Lettering Young Readers in the Dutch Enlightenment - Literacy, Agency and Progress in Eighteenth-Century Children's Books (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
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'This book presents a rigorous, hugely informative analysis of the
early history of Dutch children's literature, pedagogical
developments and emerging family formations. Thoroughly researched,
Dietz's study will be essential for historians of
eighteenth-century childhood, education and children's books, both
in the Dutch context and more widely.' - Matthew Grenby, Newcastle
University, UK. 'A rich, informative, well-documented and
effectively illustrated discussion of the ways Dutch
eighteenth-century educators tried to transform youth into
responsible readers. It does so in a wide international context and
masterfully connects this process to the radical politicization and
de-politicization of Dutch society in the revolutionary period.'
-Wijnand W. Mijnhardt, formerly of Utrecht University, the
Netherlands, and the University of California at Los Angeles, USA.
This book explores how children's literature and literacy could at
once regulate and empower young people in the eighteenth-century
Dutch Republic. Rather than presenting the history of childhood as
a linear story of increasing agency, it suggests that we view it as
a continuous struggle with the impossibility of full agency for
young people. This volume demonstrates how this struggle informed
the production of books in a historical context in which the
development of independent youths was high on the political agenda.
In close interaction with international children's literature
markets, Dutch authors developed new strategies to make the members
of young generations into capable readers and writers, equipped to
organize their own minds and bodies properly, and to support a
supposedly declining fatherland.
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