Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875
Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875

Author: Lia van Gemert

Publisher: Amsterdam University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 9089641297

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This book provides a welcome English translation of a marvelous anthology of women's religious and secular writing, stretching from the visions of the late medieval mystics through the prison testaments of sixteenth-century Anabaptist martyrs to the pamphleteers and novelists of the growing urban bourgeoisie. The translations and introductions demonstrate the ways that women in the Low Countries shaped the intellectual and cultural developments of their eras.

Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries 1500-1750
Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries 1500-1750

Author: Sarah Joan Moran

Publisher: Studies in Medieval and Reform

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9789004369726

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"Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 brings together research on women and gender across the Low Countries, a culturally contiguous region that was split by the Eighty Years War into the Protestant Dutch Republic in the north and the Spanish-controlled, Catholic Hapsburg Netherlands in the south. The authors of this interdisciplinary volume highlight women's experiences of social class, as family members, before the law, and as authors, artists, and patrons, as well as the workings of gender in art and literature. In studies ranging from microhistories to surveys, the book reveals the Low Countries as a remarkable historical laboratory for its topic and points to the opportunities the region holds for future scholarly investigations"--

Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture
Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture

Author: Jane Fenoulhet

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2016-11-07

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1910634972

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This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.

Francophone Literature in the Low Countries (1200-1600)
Francophone Literature in the Low Countries (1200-1600)

Author: Alisa van de Haar

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11-22

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9789463721080

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In late medieval and early modern times, books, as well as the people who produced and read (or listened to) them, moved between regions, social circles, and languages with relative ease. Yet, in the multilingual Low Countries, francophone literature was both internationally mobile and firmly rooted in local soil. The five contributions collected in this volume demonstrate that while in general issues of 'otherness' were resolved without difficulty, at other times (linguistic) differences were perceived as a heartfelt reality. Texts and books in French, Latin, and Dutch were as interrelated and mobile as their authors. As awareness of the francophone literature of the medieval and early modern Low Countries continues to grow, texts in all three languages will be ever more firmly connected in an intricate and multilingual weave.

How to Suppress Women's Writing
How to Suppress Women's Writing

Author: Joanna Russ

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 1983-09

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780292724457

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Discusses the obstacles women have had to overcome in order to become writers, and identifies the sexist rationalizations used to trivialize their contributions

Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters
Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters

Author: Julie D. Campbell

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780754667384

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Offering a comparative and international approach to early modern women's writing, the essays gathered here focus on multiple literatures across Italy, France, England, and the Low Countries. Individual essays investigate women in diverse social classes and life stages, ranging from siblings and mothers to nuns to celebrated writers. The collection overall is invested in crossing geographic, linguistic, political, and religious borders and in exploring familial, political, and religious communities.

Medieval Religious Women in the Low Countries
Medieval Religious Women in the Low Countries

Author: Wybren Scheepsma

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1843830485

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A case study of the Chapter of Windesheim and the texts produced there illuminates the female spiritual experience of the Modern Devotion, a northern European movement of the late fourteenth century.

Early Modern Women's Writing
Early Modern Women's Writing

Author: Martine van Elk

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-01-09

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 3319332228

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This book is the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It explores women’s rich and complex responses to the birth of the public sphere, new concepts of privacy, and the ideology of domesticity in the seventeenth century. Women in both countries were briefly allowed a public voice during times of political upheaval, but were increasingly imagined as properly confined to the household by the end of the century. This book compares how English and Dutch women responded to these changes. It discusses praise of women, marriage manuals, and attitudes to female literacy, along with female artistic and literary expressions in the form of painting, engraving, embroidery, print, drama, poetry, and prose, to offer a rich account of women’s contributions to debates on issues that mattered most to them.

Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland
Women, Writing, and Language in Early Modern Ireland

Author: Marie-Louise Coolahan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-01-28

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0199567654

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This book discusses women's writing in early modern Ireland. It explores the ways in which women contributed to the power struggles of the period; how they strove to be heard, forged space for their voices, and engaged with new and native language-traditions to produce poetry, petition-letters, depositions, and autobiography.

The Postcolonial Low Countries
The Postcolonial Low Countries

Author: Elleke Boehmer

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0739164287

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The Postcolonial Low Countries is the first book to bring together critical and comparative approaches to the emergent field of neerlandophone postcolonial studies. The collection of essays ranges across the cultures and literatures of the Netherlands and Belgium and establishes an encounter between postcolonial theoretical discourses from both within and without the region. Each one of the contributions puts under pressure the definitive concepts of postcolonial studies in its more conventional anglophone or francophone formation, as well as perceptions of the Low Countries, Belgium and the Netherlands, as lying outside or to the side of the postcolonial domain. In the Low Countries, local and regional issues concerning multiculturalism and colonial belatedness have raised important questions about the possible grounds on which postcolonial critical concepts might be not only translated but also generated afresh, to suit these paradoxically new contexts. As The Postcolonial Low Countries incisively demonstrates, the Low Countries demand a careful rearticulation of such postcolonial 'readymades' as hybridity, accommodation and creolization. Gathering together contributions from both internationally renowned scholars and newly established researchers in the field, The Postcolonial Low Countries maps previously underexplored national and transnational literary critical trajectories. The book challenges in boundary shifting ways current readings of the so-described multicultural and postcolonial Netherlands and Belgium.