Nederlandse Letterkunde - Volume 24, Issue 3, 2019

Abstract ‘Women bear the rhyme’ Prudens van Duyse (1804-1859) as mediator of female authors The Flemish poet, Prudens van Duyse (1804-1859), was a leading literary figure in the first half of the nineteenth century. In addition to his work as a writer, he also acted as a cultural mediator and it is striking that, in his work, he paid exceptional attention to female authors. This article examines, on the one hand, the relationshi Read More

Abstract R.C. Bakhuizen van den Brink’s travel letters, written during his ‘exile’, 1844-1851 In the years 1844-1851, during his journey along libraries and archives in Germany and Austria, the young scholar and later writer and archivist Bakhuizen van den Brink (1810-1865) wrote extensive love letters to Julie Simon, who he had left behind in Liège. Expressing the emotions aroused by his exile from the Netherlands and the separ Read More

Abstract Border control in the Dutch literary field between the wars. The literary critic A.M. de Jong and Nieuwe Zakelijkheid Powerful critics around the journal Forum (1932-1935) like Hendrik Marsman and Menno ter Braak branded authors of Nieuwe Zakelijkheid to be no more than reporters and imitating followers – as opposed to ‘real’ writers of literature. However, from a field theoretical perspective, what seems to be a criti Read More

Abstract A Scrapheap as Joint Enterprise: Intercultural Empathy in Tom Lanoye’s Het derde huwelijk So far, within the field of Dutch studies few have employed empathy to study texts on contemporary multiculturalism. Studying empathy as a cognitive and an affective phenomenon, this article combines insights from cognitive, affective and postcolonial research to establish several guidelines on how empathy functions b Read More