A Literary History of the Low Countries (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hermans, Theo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An authoritative volume that is the first literary history of the Netherlands and Flanders in English since the 1970s

What was the written culture behind visual artists like Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens? What made the historical novel in nineteenth-century Flanders so different from its counterpart in Holland? What was the literary impact of the huge colonial empires run by the Netherlands and Belgium? What role did Latin, French, and Frisian play in the literary culture of the Low Countries through the ages? Why is experimental writing so prevalent in modern Dutch literature? What has made Cees Nooteboom an internationally acclaimed author? And how does Flemish relate to Dutch anyway? This first literary history of the Netherlands and Flanders in English since the 1970s answers these and many other questions. Written by a team of Dutch and Flemish subject specialists, it offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the literature of the Dutch-speaking area from the medieval period up to the present day. While itfocuses on literature written in Dutch, it also assesses the significance of writings in French, Latin, and Frisian.

Contributors: Ton Anbeek, Willem van den Berg, Jaap Goedegebuure, E. K. Grootes, Anne Marie Musschoot,Frits van Oostrom, Herman Pleij, M. A. Schenkeveld-van der Dussen, Marleen de Vries.

Theo Hermans is Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature at University College London.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 740
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571138507
• Artikelnr.: 56407476

Inhaltsangabe

The Middle Ages until circa 1400 The Late Middle Ages and the Age of Rhetoricians
1400-1560 The Dutch Revolt and the Golden Age
1560-1700 Literature of the Enlightenment
1700-1800 The Nineteenth Century
1800-1880 Renewal and Reaction
1880-1940 The Postwar Period
1940- Bibliography List of English Translations of Literary Works Index