Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture Reframing the Past / edited by Jane Fenoulhet and Lesley Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gilbert, Lesley, szerk.

Fenoulhet, Jane, szerk.

Series:

Global Dutch : studies in low countries culture and history.

Global Dutch

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

országtörténelem--kultúrtörténet--Hollandia--14-20. század--tanulmánygyűjtemény.

országtörténelem.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 239 pages)

Place of Publication:

London UCL Press op. 2016

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.

Contents:

Part I. The uses of myth and history

1. The uses of myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age

2. The past in a foreign country: Patriotic history and New World geography in the Dutch Republic, c. 1600-1648

3. A noble courtier and a gentleman warrior: Some aspects of the creation of the Spinola image

4. The cult of the seventeenth-century Dutch naval heroes: Critical appropriations of a popular patriotic tradition

5. Patriotism in Dutch literature (c. 1650-c. 1750)

6. Groen van Prinsterer's interpretation of the French Revolution and the rise of 'pillars' in Dutch society

7. Memories and identities in conflict: The myth concerning the battle of Courtrai (1302) in nineteenth-century Belgium

8. The concept of nationality in nineteenth-century Flemish theatre discourse: Some preliminary remarks

Part II. The past as illumination of cultural context

9. Sinte Lorts bewaer u. Sinte Lorts gespaer u! Paradox as the key to a 'new morality' in a late medieval text

10. The Bible in modern Dutch fiction

11. The antiquity of the Dutch language: Renaissance theories on the language of Paradise

12. Maarten van Heemskerck's use of literary sources from antiquity for his Wonders of the World series of 1572

13. The legacy of Hegel's and Jean Paul's aesthetics: The idyllic in seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting

Part III Historiography in focus

14. The rhetoric of narrative historiography

15. The disciplinization of historiography in nineteenth-century Friesland and the simultaneous radicalization of nationalist discourse

16. The unimportance of writing well: eighteenth-century Belgian historians on the problem of style of history

17. The apostle of a wooden Christ: P.N. van Eyck and the journal Leiding

18. Menno Ter Braak in Dutch literature: object and subject of image-building

19. The reviled and the revered: preliminary notes on the reappraisal of canonized literary texts

20. Postmodern Dutch literature: renewal or tradition?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781910634998

1910634999

OCLC:

962325042

Publisher Number:

10.14324/111.9781910634998

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access