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Title Literary cultures and public opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650 / edited by Jan Bloemendal, Arjan van Dixhoorn, and Elsa Strietman
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011
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Description 1 electronic resource (x, 324 pages)
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 197
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 197.
Contents Preface / Jan Bloemendal, Arjan van Dixhoorn and Elsa Strietman -- Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Early Modern Low Countries / Jan Bloemendal and Arjan van Dixhoorn -- 'You serve me well': Representations of Gossip, Newsmongering and Public Opinion in the Plays of Cornelis Everaert / Samuel Mareel -- 'Please Do Not Mind the Crudeness of its Weave': Literature, Gender and the Polemic Authority of Anna Bijns / Judith Keßler -- The Morality of Hypocrisy: Gnapheus's Latin Play Hypocrisis and the Lutheran Reformation / Verena Demoed -- Playing to the Public, Playing with Opinion: Latin and Vernacular Dutch History Drama by Heinsius and Duym / Juliette Groenland -- Hugo Grotius in Praise of Jacobus Arminius: Arminian Readers of an Epicedium in the Dutch Republic and England / Moniek van Oosterhout -- Manuscript Pamphlets and Made-Up Performances: New Sources and Challenges in the Study of Public Opinion / Nelleke Moser -- 'The Cry of the Royal Blood': Revenge Tragedy and the Stuart Cause in the Dutch Republic, 1649-1660 / Helmer Helmers -- 'A Vile and Scandalous Ditty': Popular Song and Public Opinion in a Seventeenth-Century Dutch Village Conflict / Joke Spaans -- Early Modern Literary Cultures and Public Opinion: An Epilogue in the Form of a Discussion / Jan Bloemendal and Arjan van Dixhoorn
Summary In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets to a funeral poem in Latin composed to be read for or by intimate friends, from a play performed for a prince to a comedy written for pupils literary texts and performances often dealt with highly controversial topics of religion or politics, on a local or national, but also on a supranational scale. This volume sets out to analyse the role and function of literary culture in the formation of early modern public opinion, and proposes ways in which a modern scholar might approach early modern works of literature and other traces of literary culture to explore early modern public opinion making. The cases presented in this volume bring the Dutch and Latin literary cultures of the Low Countries in the focus of international debates on the history of public opinion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages[293]-311)and index
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Subject Dutch literature -- 1500-1800 -- History and criticism
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- Benelux countries -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- Benelux countries -- History -- 16th century
Literature and society -- Benelux countries -- History -- 17th century
Public opinion in literature.
Public opinion -- Benelux countries -- History -- 16th century
Public opinion -- Benelux countries -- History -- 17th century
Humanities.
History.
Regional and national history.
European history.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
Literary studies: general.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.
Religion and beliefs.
Religion: general.
History of religion.
Society and social sciences.
Society and culture: general.
Cultural studies.
History of ideas.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Dutch literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Intellectual life.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern.
Literature and society.
Public opinion.
Public opinion in literature.
Literatur
Öffentliche Meinung
Literatur.
Niederländisch.
Öffentliche Meinung.
SUBJECT Benelux countries -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
Benelux countries -- Intellectual life -- 17th century
Subject Benelux countries.
Belgien
Niederlande
Niederlande.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
Author Bloemendal, Jan, 1961-
Dixhoorn, Arjan van
Strietman, Elsa
LC no. 2020715069
ISBN 9789004201118
9004201114