Discord and Consensus in the Low Countries, 1700-2000
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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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