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All countries, regions and institutions are ultimately built on a degree of consensus, on a collective commitment to a concept, belief or value system. This consensus is continuously rephrased and reinvented through a narrative of cohesion and challenged by expressions of discontent and discord. The history of the Low Countries is characterised by both a striving for consensus and eruptions of discord, both internally and from external challenges. This interdisciplinary volume explores consensus and discord in a Low Countries context along broad cultural, linguistic and historical lines. Disciplines represented include early-modern and contemporary history; art history; film; literature; and translation scholars from both the Low Countries and beyond.
Table of Contents
- Frontcover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Figures
- Tables
- Introduction: discord and consensus in the Low Countries, 1700–2000
- 1 Pre-modern Dutch identity and
the peace celebrations of 1748
- Introduction
- Orangist celebrations
- Dissident voices
- The permanent threat of discord
- Cycles of war and peace
- 2 Gnawing worms and rolling thunder:
the unstable harmony of Dutch eighteenth-century literature
- Introduction
- Inventing and forgetting the eighteenth century’s literary past
- Reviving the eighteenth century: harmony or conflict?
- Worms and thunder
- The idyllic nature of Dutch country house poems
- Political lightning
- Endeldijk: the destruction of the garden of delight
- Epilogue
- 3 A twice-told tale of a (dis)united
kingdom: Thomas Colley Grattan’s History of the Netherlands (1830, 1833)
- Introduction
- Background to Grattan’s History
- The History of the Netherlands: Grattan’s Orangist approach
- Grattan’s revised History
- The afterlife of Grattan’s History
- 4 A conflict in words and images,
or a conflict between word and image? An intermedial analysis
of graphic novel adaptations
of Hendrik Conscience’s The Lion
of Flanders (1838)
- Introduction: the conflict in history and myth
- The conflict turned into images: an intermedial translation
- The different comic adaptations
- Bob de Moor
- Wilhelm Knoop
- Biddeloo (De Rode Ridder)
- Gejo
- Matton/Verhaeghe
- National aspects read with a comparatist’s eye
- Language conflict
- Conclusion
- 5 Language controversies in the
Gazette van Detroit (1916–1918)
- Introduction
- Camille Cools and the founding of the Gazette van Detroit
- Language and style
- Language attitudes
- Conclusion
- 6 ‘Beyond A Bridge Too Far’: the
aftermath of the Battle of Arnhem (1944) and its impact on civilian life
- Introduction
- Revisiting the Battle of Arnhem: September 1944
- The evacuation and destruction of Arnhem: September 1944 until April–May 1945
- Rebuilding the city and the nation: 1945–1969
- Unfinished business
- Silences and ignorance: the discontents of reconstruction
- The dynamics of discord and consensus
- 7 ‘A sort of wishful dream’: challenging
colonial time and ‘Indische’ identities
in Hella S. Haasse’s Oeroeg, Sleuteloog and contemporary
newspaper reviews
- Introduction
- Oeroeg: narrating a colonial dream
- Sleuteloog: what does it mean to be ‘Indisch’?
- Conclusion
- 8 Reinstating a consensus of blame:
the film adaptation of Tessa de Loo’s
De tweeling (1993) and Dutch
memories of wartime
- Introduction
- The Twins (1993) at a turning-point in the Dutch–German relationship
- Adapting the past
- The Twins as a Dutch wartime romance
- Representing Jewish suffering
- Reinstating German guilt
- Conclusion: a cinema of consensus
- 9 Harmony and discord in planning:
a comparative history of post-war welfare policies in a Dutch–German border region
- Introduction
- The northern Netherlands and north-west Germany
- Programmatic approach in Groningen and Drenthe
- Industrial plans for East Frisia
- The Emslandplan
- Spatial planning: the Dutch west/north divide
- Distance between the region and the state in Germany
- The heyday of regional industrialisation and its aftermath
- Conclusion
- 10 Dutch in the EU discourse chain: mimic or maverick?
- Introduction
- The multilingual chain of discourse: intergovernmental and supranational
- Methodology
- Data analysis
- The verdict: mimic or maverick?
- Notes on contributors
- Notes on contributors
- Index of names
- Subject Index
- Backcover
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