Title Crossing cultures : nineteenth-century Anglophone literature in the Low Countries / Tom Toremans and Walter Verschueren, eds

Published Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (218 pages) Contents Introduction / Walter Verschueren -- The critical reception and translation of English literature in the Netherlands. Fame and fortune in the field of Shakespeare translation: the case of A.S. Kok / Cees Koster ; Eccentric authors: Cd. Busken Huet and Taco H. de Beer on English literature / Ton van Kalmthout ; Elusive poets, fugitive texts: the impact of the London Shelley Society in the Low Countries / Kris Steyaert ; British influences on Dutch book designs: a case study on Dutch bibliophilic editions of works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti / Anne van Buul ; George Eliot on the Dutch market, 1860-1896 / Susan De Schepper -- The critical reception and translation of English literature in Belgium. English literature in Belgium: some introductory remarks / Lieven D'hulst ; The image of English literature in Belgian avant-garde periodicals / Francis Mus ; Presence and treatment of English poetry in 19th-century Belgian literary periodicals / Karen Vandemeulebroucke ; The import of English literature by women translators in Flanders, 1870-1914: a comparative survey / Liselotte Vandenbussche -- Women's writing in Dutch translation. Researching women's place in the literary field: anglophone authors in the Netherlands / Suzan van Dijk ; Was Jane Austen read in the 19th-century Netherlands? / Suzan van Dijk ; English reading in a Dutch library for women, 1894-1900 / Lizet Duyvendak ; Feminism in translation: re-writing the Rights of women / Laura Kirkley ; What literary historians "forgot": American women authors in the 19th-century Netherlands / Stephanie Walker and Suzan Van Dijk Summary Crossing Cultures brings together scholars in the field of reception and translation studies to chart the individual and institutional agencies that determined the reception of Anglophone authors in the Dutch and Belgian literary fields in the course of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. The essays offer a variety of angles from which nineteenth-century literary dynamics in the Low Countries can be studied. The first two parts discuss the reception of Anglophone literature in the Netherlands and Belgium, respectively, while the third part focuses exclusively on the Dutch Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject English literature -- Appreciation -- Benelux countries English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism English literature -- Translations into Dutch -- History and criticism English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature English literature -- Appreciation English literature -- Women authors Intellectual life Literatur Übersetzung Frauenliteratur SUBJECT Benelux countries -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Subject Benelux countries Englisch. Niederländisch. Flämisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Toremans, Tom. Verschueren, Walter. LC no. 2009470774 ISBN 9789461660138 9461660138

Other Titles Nineteenth-century Anglophone literature in the Low Countries

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