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Language, Literature and the Construction of a Dutch National Identity (1780-1830)

Rick Honings, A.B.G.M. van Kalmthout, Gijsbert Rutten

2018,2025

Overview

The final decades of the eighteenth and the first decades of the nineteenth century show the birth of a Dutch national identity. In this time of political upheavel (the battle between Patriots and Orangists, the French occupation years and the period of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands), the study of Dutch language and literature received an important impulse. Many scholars, such as Matthijs Siegenbeek, Johannes Henricus van der Palm, Johannes Kinker and Jan Frans Willems, made an effort to promote the study of Dutch language and culture, by writing studies, anthologies and essays. The study of the national language and literature was considered to be significant, not only for the Dutch sense of self-worth, but also for the recovery of the country, which was - according to many contemporaries declining. - Language, Literature and the Construction of a Dutch National Identity (1780-1830) discusses twelve founding fathers of newly developed cultural nationalism and their various efforts in the creation of a new national identity.

• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press,Routledge,Taylor & Francis Group
• Subject: Dutch language-History-18th century / Dutch language-History-19th century / LITERARY CRITICISM / Literature / Nationalism-Netherlands
• ISBN: 9789089648273, 9089648275, 9048526752, 9789048526758, 9781041181989, 1041181981