Simpele romans over moeilijke problemen: het werk van Cornelia van der Weyde en Jean des Villates

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Authors
Publication date 2015
Host editors
  • M. Dowlaszewicz
  • J. Skubisz
  • J. Urbaniak
Book title De deught behoeft geen loftrompet: feestbundel ter gelegenheid van de zestigste verjaardag van prof. dr. habil. Stefan kiedron
ISBN
  • 9788379771318
Pages (from-to) 253-271
Publisher Wroclaw: Neisse Verlag
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
Abstract Dutch novels from the last decades of the eighteenth century have been characterized as 'simple novels about simple problems'. This paper argues that they touch upon many complicated problems however, as can be shown by Cornelia van der Weyde's 'Henry and Louize' (1794) and Henry des Villates' 'Karel of dankbaare voedsterling' (1796). These novels are a showcase of tenstions that the Enlightenment revolutionary theme of equality had brougth to daily life in the Netherlands of the 1790s. To evaluate these novels within the wider frame of their time, a New Historicst approach is needed.
Document type Chapter
Language Dutch
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