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Author Rubright, Marjorie

Title Doppelgänger dilemmas : Anglo-Dutch relations in early modern English literature and culture / Marjorie Rubright
Edition 1st ed
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (352 pages)
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Double Dutch -- Chapter 1. Going Dutch in London City Comedy -- Chapter 2. ''By Common Language Resembled'': Anglo-Dutch Kinship in the Language Debates -- Chapter 3. Double Dutch Tongues: Language Lessons of the Stage -- Chapter 4. Dutch Impressions: The Narcissism of Minor Difference in Print -- Chapter 5. London as Palimpsest: The Anglo-Dutch Royal Exchange -- Chapter 6. Doppelganger Dilemmas: The Crisis of Anglo-Dutch Interchangeability in the East Indies and the Imperfect Redress of Performance -- Coda: A View from Antwerp -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary Examining literary and dramatic puns, double entendres, and other doublings, Marjorie Rubright uncovers the ways early modern England's real and imagined proximities with the Dutch played a crucial role in the making of English ethnicity
Analysis Cultural Studies
Literature
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject National characteristics, English, in literature.
Ethnicity in literature.
Cultural relations in literature.
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Cultural relations in literature
English literature -- Early modern
Ethnicity in literature
International relations
National characteristics, English, in literature
SUBJECT Netherlands -- Relations -- Great Britain
Great Britain -- Relations -- Netherlands
Subject Great Britain
Netherlands
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812290066
0812290062