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Book SynopsisHistory in Dutch Studies re-considers the central role of history within the discipline of Dutch Studies as viewed from a range of specializations within the field; studies in Dutch history, art history, literature and linguistics all reflect how the past, and one's theories and views of history, affect the practice of each sub-discipline.
Trade ReviewThis tidy book (and the PAANS series overall) provides a model for the economical publication of scholarly research, accomplished through a combination of volunteer editorial work and modest production values. The University Press of America is to be commended for its continuing commitment to such publications in the face of increasing commercial pressures. -- Stephanie S. Dickey * Historians Of Netherlandic Art Newsletter *
This tidy book (and the PAANS series overall) provides a model for the economical publication of scholarly research, accomplished through a combination of volunteer editorial work and modest production values. The University Press of America is to be commended for its continuing commitment to such publications in the face of increasing commercial pressures. -- Stephanie S. Dickey * Historians Of Netherlandic Art Newsletter *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 A Literary History or a Literary History Chapter 3 The Movement of the Eighties, Thirty Years After: On Literary History and the Reproduction of Norms Chapter 4 Travelers and Travel Liars in Eighteenth-Century Dutch Literature Chapter 5 Discussions with the Literary Past: Attitudes of the Gruppe 47 and the Viftigers towards Earlier Literary Movements Chapter 6 The Administration of Parochial Charity in Burgundian Flanders Chapter 7 (Re-) Writing History in Flanders during World War II Chapter 8 Rembrandt's World History Illustrated by Merian Chapter 9 Myth and Afrikaner Idealization in Dutch Historical Novels Chapter 10 A Distorted History: Notes on the Marginalization of some Afrikaans Literary Texts during the Time of "The First Afrikaans Movement" (1875-1906) in South Africa Chapter 11 Literature and Nineteenth-Century History: Darwin and the Dutch Novel (1860-1910) Chapter 12 Linguistics as Politics: On the Role of Alternative Approaches within Dutch Linguistics Chapter 13 A History of Dutch Jewry before the Holocaust: Emancipation, Assimilation, Integration? Chapter 14 Customizing One's Voice: Languages n Migrant Writing Chapter 15 French Loanwords in Dutch: The Mouth is Mightier than the Pen Chapter 16 No More Magic: On the Interpretation of Dutch 60s Poetry Chapter 17 Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Paintings of the Biblical Hagar and Ishmael: Painterly Conceptions of Familial Life and Community in a Developing Nation Chapter 18 Marga Minco's Nagelaten dagen: A Case of Pentimento or rewriting the Past Chapter 19 "Whodunnit?": A History of Crime Fiction in Flanders and the Netherlands Chapter 20 The Discursive Construction of the City in the Journal DeVlag
