Project

The Northern and Southern Netherlands as a literary and cultural 'entrepôt' for seventeenth-century British letters, 1603-1688

Code
3G015807
Duration
01 January 2007 → 30 December 2012
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities
    • History
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
Keywords
British literary cultural history
 
Project description

The project aims at providing a new perceptive on the continental backgrounds and contexts of 17C British literature through a close reading of a corpus of non-canonical texts written by English exiles, envoys, travellers and others who in the period 1603-1688 became associated with Netherlandic cultural centres that contributed to the diffusion of continental literary ideas.