Author: Neil Cocks

Baggerman, Arianne and Rudolf Dekker, Child of the Enlightenment

Aug 17, 2009

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Neil Cocks

in Early Modern to Eighteenth Century, Reviews, Romantic and Victorian

Arianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker, Child of the Enlightenment: Revolutionary Europe Reflected in a Boyhood Diary, translated by Diane Webb (Leiden: Brill, 2009). 568 pp. £89.10 hb. ISBN 9004172696. In Child of the Enlightenment, Arianne Baggerman and Rudolf Dekker offer an insight into what they term the ‘paradoxical everyday practices of the Enlightenment’ (2009: 332) through…