Overview
- Sheds new light on familiar English literary texts, highlighting the Dutch dimension that others have overlooked
- Covers a period in which dramatic evolutions occur in the relationship between England and the Dutch Republic
- Draws on material in Dutch as well as in English, including some texts never before treated in Anglophone scholarship
Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book makes newly visible the sustained engagement of the English and the Dutch throughout a critical century in their cultural and national development. It reads a broad selection of early modern literary texts, some never before treated in Anglophone scholarship, in which the Dutch and the English wrote about each other and themselves. This interdisciplinary study brings to light the key affinities of these two nations: their embrace of liberty, turn toward Protestantism, and pursuit of commerce. It shows that as Catholic, colonial powers worked to prevent the rise of early modern Europe’s two great Protestant states, those similarities—as well as a combination of English admiration, envy, and distrust of the Dutch—produced an emulous rivalry that remade the two nations and their literature.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Andrew Fleck is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas in El Paso, USA, where he specializes in Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century British literature and culture. Andrew has published a variety of articles on the literary prose of this period, from Mandeville’s Travels to Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. Publications on the early modern English and Dutch include an essay on performing foreign tongues on the English stage (in MaRDiE), syphilis in The Dutch Courtesan (in Early Theatre), the 1603 plague epidemic (forthcoming in JMMLA), Thomas Scott and the English community in the Low Countries (in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History), and several shorter notes (in Notes and Queries and ANQ).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: English National Identity and the Image of the Dutch
Book Subtitle: From the Armada to the Glorious Revolution
Authors: Andrew Fleck
Series Title: Early Modern Literature in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42910-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42909-5Published: 04 January 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-42912-5Due: 04 February 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-42910-1Published: 03 January 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-5919
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5927
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 343
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Literary History, History of Early Modern Europe