Britain’s Bourse: cultural and literary exchanges between England and the Low Countries in the early modern era (c. 1580-1620)
This thesis presents the argument that Anglo-Dutch military contact during the late sixteenth and early to mid seventeenth century created a body of English literature, or even a genre of early modern literature that could be labelled as Anglo-Dutch in origin. This thesis contends that much of this literature was created by a network of Anglo-Dutch writers, translators, soldiers, patrons, and courtiers who used literature as a means of ‘co-optive or soft power’ (Nye 166), to spread the ideological appeal of a cultural, political, and religious Anglo-Dutch alliance. Evidence and arguments are p... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Doctoral thesis |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
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University College Cork
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Schlagwörter: | Anglo-Dutch / Thomas Dekker / Sir Horace Vere / Sir John van Olden Barnevelt / John Marston / Henry Hexham / London city comedy / Military poetry / The Dutch courtesan / Early modern drama / Early modern poetry / Military literature / Cultural exchange |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28622604 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10468/5107 |