De roman als wapen tegen Frankrijk: Sara Burgerhart van Wolff en Deken en de strijd tegen de ‘gallofilie’ / The Novel as a Weapon against France: Wolff’s and Deken’s Sara Burgerhart and the Struggle Against the ‘Francophilia’

The so-called ‘moral reorientation’ (Dutch: ‘morele heroriëntatie’) was a largescale Dutch project, aimed at an improvement of ethical standards of society in the 18th century. It was also a reaction to the decay of the Dutch Republic refl ected in the literature at the end of the 18th century. Using magazines, drama’s and novels, authors provided example of a right behaviour and criticized all those phenomena, which led to a moral malaise in society. One of these phenomena was a boundless love for France, its culture, fashion, literature and philosophy. In literature it was presented as a gra... Mehr ...