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"The recent return of 'world literature' to the centre of literary studies has entailed an increased attention to non-European literatures, but in turn has also further marginalized Europe's smaller literatures. Dutch and Flemish Literature as World Literature shows how Dutch-language literature, from its very beginnings in the Middle Ages to the present, has not only always taken its cue from the 'major' literary traditions of Europe and beyond, but has also actively contributed to and influenced these traditions. The contributors to this book focus on key works and authors, providing a concise, yet highly readable, history of Dutch-language literature and demonstrating how this literature is anchored in world literature."--Bloomsbury Publishing Introduction: Dutch and Flemish Literature as World Literature -- Theo D'haen (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- 1. A king and two foxes: Middle Dutch Literature on European Crossroads -- Geert Claassens (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- 2. John of Ruusbroec (1293-1381), Celebrated Mystagogical Author of The Spiritual Espousals -- Kees Schepers (University of Antwerp, Belgium) -- 3. Die Rose by Heinric of Brussels, the Brabantine Version of the Old French Romance of the Rose -- Anne Reynders (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- 4. Courtly Literature in the Low Countries and Germany: Jacob van Maerlant and Rudolf von Ems -- Bart Besamusca (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) -- 5. The Many Returns of Elckerlijc: Every Man's Mirror of Salvation -- Geert Warnar (University of Leiden, Netherlands) -- 6. Joost van den Vondel (Cologne 1586 - Amsterdam 1679) as Writer/Translator: Literacy in Transit -- Marco Prandoni (University of Bologna, Italy) -- 7. Multatuli: His Work Through the World -- Jaap Grave (University of Münster, Germany) -- 8. How a Flemish Writer Turned Global: The 19th-Century Journey of Conscience's Early Novellas -- Lieven D'hulst (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- 9. Couperus in Translation -- Ruud Veen (Independent Scholar) -- 10. Dutch Literature and the Global System of Indentured Labor, 1900-1940 -- Saskia Pieterse (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) -- 11. Towards a History of Russian Translations of Dutch Literature: Herman Heijermans and His Play The Good Hope in Russia -- Irina Michajlova (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia) and Sergei Tcherkasski (Russian State Institute of Performing Arts / Saint Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy, Russia) -- 12. Rescuing Something Fine: Huizinga's Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen (The Waning of the Middle Ages) as World Literature -- Elke Brems (KU Leuven, Belgium) & Orsolya Réthelyi (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary) -- 13. "Glimpses of a poetic genius": Paul van Ostaijen (1896-1928) and World Literature -- Geert Buelens (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) -- 14. Dutch Interbellum Poetry and/as World Literature -- Theo D'haen (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- 15. Reinventing the Modernist Novel: Louis Paul Boon and Hugo Claus -- Kris Humbeeck (University of Antwerp, Belgium) -- 16. Small Amsterdam and the World Beyond: The Case of the Magazine Barbarber -- Bart Vervaeck (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Dirk De Geest (KU Leuven, Belgium) -- 17. Postwar Dutch Fiction -- Hans Bertens (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) -- 18. Expansions Without Affect; Identities Without Globality: Global Novels in Dutch From an Agonistic Perspective -- Hans Demeyer (University College London, UK) -- 19. Orpheus in the Trenches: Modes of Translation in Stefan Hertmans' War and Turpentine -- Frank Albers (University of Antwerp, Belgium) -- 20. At the Edge of the World and Other Stories: Dutch-Australian Emigration Literature, ca. 1945-1990 -- Ton van Kalmthout (Huygens Institute, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Netherlands) -- Index.
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