Eenheid in verscheidenheid - Het beeld van de letterkunde in Johan Huizinga’s Nederland’s beschaving in de zeventiende eeuw

The following article focuses upon the image of seventeenth-century Dutch literature sketched by Johan Huizinga in his Holländische Kultur des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts (1933) and Nederland’s beschaving in de zeventiende eeuw (1941). The German version is based upon three lectures given by Huizinga in Cologne in 1932 and stresses the peculiarity of seventeenth-century Dutch culture. Despair of civilisation and the intention to stimulate his readers’ national pride determine the way in which he composes and presents ‘his’ literary canon in the 1941 Dutch version. This canon contains the familiar... Mehr ...