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Biografie van de Haarlemse dichter en toneelschrijver Pieter Langendijk (1683-1756), waarbij zijn werk wordt besproken tegen de achtergrond van zijn leven.
Amsterdam was, after London and Paris, the third largest city in early modern Europe, and was renowned throughout Europe for its widespread and visible prostitution. Delving deep into a wide range of sources, but making particular use of the transcripts of thousands of trials, The Burgher and the Whore reconstructs Amsterdam's whoredom in detail. The colourful and fascinating descriptions of the prostitutes, their bawds, their clients, and the police shed new light on thecultural, social, and economic conditions of the lives of poor women in a seafaring society.Lotte van de Pol explores how the vice trade was embedded in Amsterdam's society, economy, and judicial system, and how legislation ...
This is the first book-length study of Sentimentalism in the Netherlands. Taking for its starting point the polemic between Rhijnvis Feith, the champion of the Dutch Sentimental vogue, and his chief opponent Willem Emmery de Perponcher (a polemic that lasted from 1786 to 1789), the author places the Dutch debate over Sentimentalism in a wider socio-cultural context. The Dutch had their own version of Sentimentalism. Its specific nature, and the themes that were touched upon in the debate which it evoked, are here described and analysed against the European background of English Sensibility and German Empfindsamkeit. The Pure Language of the Heart also discusses authors such as Elisabeth Maria Post and Jacob Eduard de Witte. It traces the vocabulary of eighteenth-century Dutch sentimental discourse, and contains an extensive bibliography of contemporary material relating to the Sentimental.
Between the 17th and 19th centuries auto-biographers and diarists invented new ways to write about childhood and children. At the same time, pedagogical ideas about child-rearing changed. This book looks at the connection between these developments. Egodocuments can bring the past alive, and allow us to sketch six intimate portraits. The second part of the book concentrates on the changes. Childhood became more highly valued as a phase of life. Children were taken more seriously. This is shown in chapters on child's play, punishment, wet-nursing and independence. Around 1800, in diaries, parents more openly grieved about the loss of a child, which indicates both a change of literary conventions and changes in the way emotions were felt and expressed. Finally, autobiographers wrote more and differently about their early years, and developed new memory strategies. Autobiographical texts are discussed within a wider cultural setting, using paintings, poetry, pedagogical tracts and novels. This book makes clear how changes in autobiographical style, the concept of childhood and the working of human memory are connected.
Dutch literature of the 17th century, while not as famous as other elements of the culture of the Dutch Golden Age, deserves independent focus, not only because of its own intrinsic worth, but also because of the evidence of strong social concern that it presents and the light it sheds on other aspects of the Golden Age. Despite this, outside the Netherlands the literature has not been examined closely, undoubtedly because of the language barrier, but also because there is no reasonable introduction to the material in English. This book fills that lacuna. Richly illustrated, it groups its subjects thematically: politics, religion, nature, daily life. Because Golden Age painting, in particular, is so famous, the book devotes a special chapter to the connection between poetry and painting. A concluding chapter shows the republic's function as a European literary trading center with brisk import and export. Included also are texts and translations of poems and extensive bibliographies for further study.
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Aan de wetenschappelijke studie van het boek zal de naam van mevrouw Elly Cockx-Indestege, recentelijk ere-conservator van de afdeling Kostbare Werken in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek van Belgie te Brussel, voor altijd verbonden blijven. Als blijk van hun hoge waardering voor haar persoon en werk in wijde kring hebben tachtig auteurs - onder wie vele gerenommeerde onderzoekers op het gebied van de boekwetenschap - uit West- en Centraal-Europa, alsook uit de Verenigde Staten, met hun bijdragen de feestbundel E Codicibus Impressisque samengesteld. Deze bestaat uit drie overvloedig geillustreerde volumineuze delen. Het eerste deel bevat artikelen over handschriften, incunabelen en kalligrafie. Het tweede deel handelt over drukken van de zestiende tot de twintigste eeuw. In het derde deel verschijnen studies over band en papier, verzamelaars en verzamelingen.
Satire is een ongrijpbaar fenomeen. Satirische teksten en cartoons onttrekken zich gedurig aan eenduidige interpretaties en weten ernst en vrolijkheid op een vernuftige manier door elkaar te mengen. "Onder het mom van satire" brengt de werking van dit ongrijpbare verschijnsel nader in kaart, specifiek binnen de context van de roerige laatste decennia van de achttiende eeuw: de Patriottentijd (1780-1787) en de Bataafse Tijd (1795-1806). Centraal staan twee casussen uit het domein van de periodieke opiniepers: een reeks ‘toverlantaarns’ en ‘rarekieks’ uit de jaren 1782-1783 en de almanak-pastiche "De Lantaarn" (1792-1801) van Pieter van Woensel. Via een brede culturele analyse van deze bronnen komen diverse aspecten van het satirische spel aan bod, waaronder de rol van de satiricus, de impact van satire op het publieke debat en de functie van de satirische techniek van de parodie.
Proefschrift Amsterdam over de ontwikkeling van het Nederlandstalige vrouwentijdschrift vanaf de eerste uitgaven in de achttiende eeuw tot en met de emancipatorische bladen Ons Streven (1870-1878) en Onze Roeping (1870-1873). Daarnaast besteedt de auteur aandacht aan de activiteiten van de eerste vrouwelijke journalisten in Nederland.