Feike Dietz is Assistant Professor in Early Modern Dutch Literature at Utrecht University, Netherlands. Her current research focuses on literature as an instrument of literacy and knowledge, in particular with respect to youths and women. She has also published on religious literature and language variation in literature.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I:  Young Readers as Social Participants.- 2. The Order of the Alphabet: The Representation of Consumption and Production in Audiovisual ABC Books.- 3. Reading as Work: The Creation of Industrious Citizens in Dutch Reading Books.- Part II:  Young Readers as Knowledgeable Citizens.- 4. The Bounds of Empirical Modes of Reading: Knowledge about Visible and Invisible Worlds in the Dutch adaptations of Georg Christian Raff.- 5. The Moral Assessment of Historical Knowledge: Searching for Truths in Dutch History Textbooks.- Part III:  Young Readers as Epistolary Literate Writers.- 6. From Individual Boyhood to Political Brotherhood: Dimensions of Moral Education in Epistolary Prose for Children.- 7. The Making of Lettered Girlhood: Epistolary Literacy as an Instrument of Peer Mothering in Dutch Girls’ Books.

“The work is thus ambitious and wide-ranging in its implications, and it offers a substantive contribution to our understanding of eighteenth-century trends in the approach to and aims of developing children’s literacy. … Lettering Young Readers in the Dutch Enlightenment is a rich, well-documented work that contributes substantively to the historical literature on children’s literacy and the children’s book market in the eighteenth century … .” (Karen L. Taylor, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 16 (1), 2023)

Feike Dietz is Assistant Professor in Early Modern Dutch Literature at Utrecht University, Netherlands. Her current research focuses on literature as an instrument of literacy and knowledge, in particular with respect to youths and women. She has also published on religious literature and language variation in literature.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I:  Young Readers as Social Participants.- 2. The Order of the Alphabet: The Representation of Consumption and Production in Audiovisual ABC Books.- 3. Reading as Work: The Creation of Industrious Citizens in Dutch Reading Books.- Part II:  Young Readers as Knowledgeable Citizens.- 4. The Bounds of Empirical Modes of Reading: Knowledge about Visible and Invisible Worlds in the Dutch adaptations of Georg Christian Raff.- 5. The Moral Assessment of Historical Knowledge: Searching for Truths in Dutch History Textbooks.- Part III:  Young Readers as Epistolary Literate Writers.- 6. From Individual Boyhood to Political Brotherhood: Dimensions of Moral Education in Epistolary Prose for Children.- 7. The Making of Lettered Girlhood: Epistolary Literacy as an Instrument of Peer Mothering in Dutch Girls’ Books.

“The work is thus ambitious and wide-ranging in its implications, and it offers a substantive contribution to our understanding of eighteenth-century trends in the approach to and aims of developing children’s literacy. … Lettering Young Readers in the Dutch Enlightenment is a rich, well-documented work that contributes substantively to the historical literature on children’s literacy and the children’s book market in the eighteenth century … .” (Karen L. Taylor, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 16 (1), 2023)

Feike Dietz is Assistant Professor in Early Modern Dutch Literature at Utrecht University, Netherlands. Her current research focuses on literature as an instrument of literacy and knowledge, in particular with respect to youths and women. She has also published on religious literature and language variation in literature.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I:  Young Readers as Social Participants.- 2. The Order of the Alphabet: The Representation of Consumption and Production in Audiovisual ABC Books.- 3. Reading as Work: The Creation of Industrious Citizens in Dutch Reading Books.- Part II:  Young Readers as Knowledgeable Citizens.- 4. The Bounds of Empirical Modes of Reading: Knowledge about Visible and Invisible Worlds in the Dutch adaptations of Georg Christian Raff.- 5. The Moral Assessment of Historical Knowledge: Searching for Truths in Dutch History Textbooks.- Part III:  Young Readers as Epistolary Literate Writers.- 6. From Individual Boyhood to Political Brotherhood: Dimensions of Moral Education in Epistolary Prose for Children.- 7. The Making of Lettered Girlhood: Epistolary Literacy as an Instrument of Peer Mothering in Dutch Girls’ Books.

“The work is thus ambitious and wide-ranging in its implications, and it offers a substantive contribution to our understanding of eighteenth-century trends in the approach to and aims of developing children’s literacy. … Lettering Young Readers in the Dutch Enlightenment is a rich, well-documented work that contributes substantively to the historical literature on children’s literacy and the children’s book market in the eighteenth century … .” (Karen L. Taylor, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 16 (1), 2023)