In exploring the birth of a Dutch identity between 1780 and 1830, this book integrates nationalism studies with literary and linguistic history by highlighting scholarly study of the Dutch language as a factor in the creation of the national identity. These early scholars promoted the Dutch language during a time of political upheaval, when citizens needed something to feel proud of. This book examines the impact individual agents had on a crucial stage in the Dutch nation-building process.
This book integrates nationalism studies with iterary and linguistic history by highlighting scholarly study of the Dutch language as a factor in the creation of the national identity.
1. Gijsbert Rutten & Ton van Kalmthout Cultural nationalism and the rise
of Dutch studies
2. Gijsbert Rutten Matthijs Siegenbeek in defence of Dutch
3. Francien Petiet Barthold Hendrik Lulofs: A learned dilettante
4. Rick
Honings Poet and professor: Adam Simons
5. Marijke van der wal Johannes
Kinker: A Kantian philosopher teaching Dutch language, literature, and
eloquence
6. Wim Vandenbussche Caught between propaganda and science: Ulrich
Gerhard Lauts, the forgotten father of Dutch philology in Brussels
7. Jan
Noordegraaf Pieter Weiland and his Nederduitsche spraakkunst
8. Ellen Krol
Moralist of the nation: Johannes Henricus van der Palm
9. Janneke Weijermars
I am revived as a Belgian: The work of Jan Frans Willems
10. Lo van Driel &
Nicoline van der Sijs Adriaan Kluit: Back to the sources!
11. Peter Altena
Can grander skulls be crowned? Jacob van Dijks posthumous literary history
12. Ton van Kalmthout Hendrik van Wijn: Pioneer of historical literary
studies in the Netherlands
13. Lotte Jensen The founding father of Dutch
literary history: Jeronimo de Vries
14. Gert-Jan Johannes, Afterword.
Rick Honings is Scaliger Professor Special Collections at Leiden University and a specialist in nineteenth-century Dutch and Dutch Indies literature. In 2018 he published Star Authors in the Age of Romanticism: Literary Celebrity in the Netherlands, the international edition of his monograph De dichter als idool: Literaire roem in de negentiende eeuw (2016). In 2021, he co-edited De postkoloniale spiegel: De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen. Currently, he works with a research team on the NWO Vidi project Voicing the Colony: Travelers in the Dutch East Indies, 1800-1900. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Indische Letteren. Gijsbert Rutten is a senior researcher in historical sociolinguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
