{"product_id":"literature-without-frontiers-transnational-perspectives-on-premodern-literature-in-the-low-countries-1200-1800-9789004544864","title":"Literature without Frontiers: Transnational Perspectives on Premodern Literature in the Low Countries, 1200-1800","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume explores the indispensability of a transnational perspective for the construction and writing of literary histories of the Low Countries from 1200- 1800. It looks at the role of mediators such as translators, printers, and editors, at characteristics of literary genres and the possibilities they offered for literary boundary crossing and adaptation, and at the role of regions and urban centers as multilingual hubs. This collection demonstrates the centrality of transnational perspectives for elucidating the complex inter-relationship between Netherlandic and European literary history. The Low Countries were a dynamic site for new literary production and transnational exchange that shaped and reshaped the intellectual landscape of premodern Europe.    Contributors include: Lia van Gemert, Lucas van der Deijl, Feike Dietz, Paul Wackers, David Napolitano, James A. Parente, Jr., Frank Willaert, Youri Desplenter, Bart Besamusca, Frans R.E. Blom, and Jan Bloemendal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors    Introduction   Jan Bloemendal, Youri Desplenter, James A. Parente Jr. and  Cornelis van der Haven    part 1: Mediators  1 Not Just a Love Story: The Dutch Translations of John Barclay’s Argenis   Lia van Gemert and Lucas van der Deijl    2 Bringing Young Grandisons Across the Channel   Plural and Interacting Mediator Roles as Vital Forces Behind the Production and Circulation of Transnational Children’s Literature   Feike Dietz    part 2: Genres  3 The Dutch Reynaert Tradition in National and European Perspective   Paul Wackers    4 An Appeal to Study Dutch Mirrors-for-Magistrates across Linguistic, Geographical, and Institutional Boundaries   David Napolitano    5 Neo-Latin Drama between Nationality and Transnationality   Jan Bloemendal    6 Educating for Empire: Romance and Nation in Johan van Heemskerck’s Batavische Arcadia (1637)   James A. Parente Jr.    part 3: Places  7 Lotharingia Lost?: An Exploration of the Utility of an Aborted Concept for the Study of Medieval Literature in the Low Countries   Frank Willaert    8 Jan van Leeuwen, Johannes Tauler, Their Writings, and  Their Connections   The Fourteenth-Century Brabant and Rhinelandic Mystical Traditions  as Textual Community   Youri Desplenter    9 Jacob van Maerlant’s Martijn Poems from a Multilingual Perspective   Bart Besamusca    10 The Pearl from Spain: Calderón’s La vida es sueño in the  Dutch-Speaking Territories   Frans R.E. Blom    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210866909527,"sku":"9789004544864","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/literature-without-frontiers-transnational-perspectives-on-premodern-literature-in-the-low-countries-1200-1800-9789004544864","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}