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)

Promotor

Jean Pierre Vander Motten

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- History
- Language studies
- Literary studies

Keywords

British literary cultural history 17th Century Comparative literature English literature Literary studies

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.