@article{1436847,
      author = {Dietz, Feike,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1436847},
      title = {Lettering young readers in the Dutch enlightenment :  literacy, agency and progress in eighteenth-century  children's books /},
      abstract = {'This book presents a rigorous, hugely informative  analysis of the early history of Dutch childrens  literature, pedagogical developments and emerging family  formations. Thoroughly researched, Dietzs study will be  essential for historians of eighteenth-century childhood,  education and childrens books, both in the Dutch context  and more widely. Matthew O. Grenby, Professor of  Eighteenth-Century Studies, Specialist in Childrens  Literature and Culture, Newcastle University. A rich,  informative, well-documented and effectively illustrated  discussion of the ways Dutch 18th- 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, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at  Utrecht University (1991-2007) and of Early Modern  Intellectual History at the University of California at Los  Angeles (2001-2005). This book explores how historical  childrens literature and literacy could at once regulate  and empower young people. 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: the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic. In  close interaction with international childrens 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.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69633-7},
      recid = {1436847},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
}