Women's writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875 : a bilingual anthology /

Women's writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875 : a bilingual anthology /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2010.
Description:	624 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English Dutch
Series:	Amsterdam Anthologies Amsterdam anthologies.
Subject:	Women authors, Dutch. Women authors, Flemish. Women and literature -- Netherlands -- History and criticism. Dutch literature -- Women authors. Dutch literature -- Translations into English. Flemish literature -- Women authors. Flemish literature -- Translations into English. Dutch literature. Dutch literature -- Women authors. Flemish literature. Flemish literature -- Women authors. Women and literature. Women authors, Dutch. Women authors, Flemish. Netherlands. Literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Translations.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8510588

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Other authors / contributors:	Gemert, Lia van, 1958- Aelst, José van, 1955- Scholz, Myra J. Heerspink, 1944- Mudde, Brenda. Vincent, Paul (Paul F.)
ISBN:	9789089641298 9089641297
Notes:	"Popular Science"--back cover under Amsterdam University Press. Includes bibliographical references (p. 576-597) and indexes. Texts in original Dutch and English translation on facing pages.
Summary:	This book provides a welcome English translation of a marvelous anthology of women's religious and secular writing, stretching from the visions of the late medieval mystics through the prison testaments of sixteenth-century Anabaptist martyrs to the pamphleteers and novelists of the growing urban bourgeoisie. The translations and introductions demonstrate the ways that women in the Low Countries shaped the intellectual and cultural developments of their eras.
Other form:	Online version: Women's writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2010

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Summary:	This landmark bilingual Dutch-English anthology introduces women's writing in the Low Countries from 1200 to 1875 through a variety of texts characterised by the religious, social, political and feminist engagement of their authors, as well as their extraordinary artistic achievement. Dutch and Flemish female writers produced work of ardent religious passion, ranging from medieval mysticism through the scathing anti-Reformation polemic to pious Anabaptist reflections. Other writers addressed current social and political debates or demonstrated fierce feminist engagement. Talented authors made important contributions to established genres such as the sonnet and the social novel or introduced new ones, like the epistolary novel. This invaluable volume, the first of its kind, explores and illustrates women's historical involvement in the literary world of the Low Countries, their opportunities and hindrances, and the experiences, which found their way into women's texts.
Item Description:	"Popular Science"--back cover under Amsterdam University Press.
Physical Description:	624 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 576-597) and indexes.
ISBN:	9789089641298 9089641297