Literature Without Frontiers

Transnational Perspectives on Premodern Literature in the Low Countries, 1200-1800
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54486-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 346, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 607 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haven, Cornelis van der

Desplenter, Youri

Parente Jr, J a

Bloemendal, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Niederländische und Flämische Literaturen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List 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

Über Autor(innen)

Cornelis van der Haven, PhD (2008, Utrecht University) is Associate Professor at Ghent University in the field of early modern Dutch literature. He published widely about Dutch and German literary history of the 17th and 18th centuries, with a strong focus on the role of literature in shaping cultural and social identities.

Jan Bloemendal, PhD (1997, Utrecht University) is senior researcher at the Huygens Institute and Professor of Neo-Latin at the Ruhr University Bochum. He published widely on Neo-Latin, drama and Erasmus, including (with Howard B. Norland), Neo-Latin Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe (Leiden, 2013).

Youri Desplenter, PhD (2004, Ghent University) is Professor of Historical Dutch Literature (Middle Ages) at Ghent University. He has published on Middle Dutch religious literature, including De Bijbel in de Lage Landen. Elf eeuwen van vertalen (Heerenveen: 2015; co-ed.).

James A. Parente, Jr., PhD (1979, Yale University) is Emeritus Professor of German, Scandinavian and Dutch literature. He is the author of Religious Drama and the Humanist Tradition: Christian Theater in Germany and the Netherlands, 1500-1680 (Leiden, 1987), and has published widely on early modern drama and prose, Neo-Latin literature and transnational literary history.