Protestant Children, Missions and Education in the British World by Hugh Morrison (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