Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Low Countries, 1450-1650Jan Bloemendal, Arjan Van Dixhoorn, Elsa Strietman In the early modern Low Countries, literary culture functioned on several levels simultaneously: it provided learning, pleasure, and entertainment while also shaping public debate. From a ditty in Dutch sung in the streets to a funeral poem in Latin composed to be read for or by intimate friends, from a play performed for a prince to a comedy written for pupils literary texts and performances often dealt with highly controversial topics of religion or politics, on a local or national, but also on a supranational scale. This volume sets out to analyse the role and function of literary culture in the formation of early modern public opinion, and proposes ways in which a modern scholar might approach early modern works of literature and other traces of literary culture to explore early modern public opinion making. The cases presented in this volume bring the Dutch and Latin literary cultures of the Low Countries in the focus of international debates on the history of public opinion. |
Contents
Chapter One Literary Cultures and Public Opinion in the Early Modern Low Countries | 1 |
Representations of Gossip Newsmongering and Public Opinion in the Plays of Cornelis Everaert | 37 |
Literature Gender and the Polemic Authority of Anna Bijns | 55 |
Gnapheuss Latin Play Hypocrisis and the Lutheran Reformation | 91 |
Latin and Vernacular Dutch History Drama by Heinsius and Duym | 121 |
Arminian Readers of an Epicedium in the Dutch Republic and England | 151 |
New Sources and Challenges in the Study of Public Opinion | 181 |
Revenge Tragedy and the Stuart Cause in the Dutch Republic 16491660 | 219 |
Popular Song and Public Opinion in a SeventeenthCentury Dutch Village Conflict | 251 |
An Epilogue in the Form of a Discussion | 267 |
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About the Authors | 313 |
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