University Press of America
Pages: 256
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-2567-8 • Paperback • July 2003 • $83.99 • (£65.00)
Robert Howell is Professor, Department of German, University of Wisconsin- Madison.
Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor is Associate Professor, Department of German, University of Wisconsin- Madison.
Chapter 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
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
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