Language, Literature and the Construction of a Dutch National Identity (1780-1830)
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In exploring the birth of a Dutch identity between 1780 and 1830, this book integrates nationalism studies with literary and linguistic history by highlighting scholarly study of the Dutch language as a factor in the creation of the national identity. These early scholars promoted the Dutch language during a time of political upheaval, when citizens needed something to feel proud of. This book examines the impact individual agents had on a crucial stage in the Dutch nation-building process.
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Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
Publication Date: 06 Mar 2018
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Publication City/Country: Netherlands
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789089648273
About
Rick Honings is Scaliger Professor Special Collections at Leiden University and a specialist in nineteenth-century Dutch and Dutch Indies literature. In 2018 he published Star Authors in the Age of Romanticism: Literary Celebrity in the Netherlands the international edition of his monograph De dichter als idool: Literaire roem in de negentiende eeuw (2016). In 2021 he co-edited De postkoloniale spiegel: De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen. Currently he works with a research team on the NWO Vidi project Voicing the Colony: Travelers in the Dutch East Indies 1800-1900. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Indische Letteren. Gijsbert Rutten is a senior researcher in historical sociolinguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.