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About the book

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.Ìý

About the authors

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Jane Fenoulhet is Professor of Dutch Studies at ×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳. Her research interests include women's writing, literary history and disciplinary history.Ìý

Gerdi Quist is Lecturer in Dutch and Head of Department at ×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳'s Department of Dutch. Her current research focuses onÌý language and culture teaching and learning which take cultural complexity and critical intercultural awareness as a starting point.Ìý

Ulrich Tiedau is Senior Lecturer in Modern Low Countries History and Society at ×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳. In addition, he serves as editor-in-chief of Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies and review editor of Frontiers in Digital Humanities.

Table of contents

Consensus and Discord in the Low Countries | Consensus and Discord: Pre-modern Dutch Identity and the Peace Celebrations of 1748 |Ìý Gnawing Worms and Rolling Thunder: The Instable Harmony of Dutch 18th-Century Literature | A Twice-Told Tale of a (Dis)united Kingdom: Thomas Colley Grattan's History of the Netherlands (1830, 1833) | A Conflict in Words And Images, or a Conflict Between Word and Image? An Intermedial Analysis of Graphical Novel Adaptations of Hendrik Conscience's The Lion Of Flanders (1838) | Language Controversies in the Gazette Van Detroit (1916-1918) | 'Beyond A Bridge Too Far': The Aftermath of The Battle of Arnhem (1944), and Its Impact on Civilian Life |Ìý 'A Sort Of Wishful Dream' : Challenging Colonial Time and 'Indische' Identities in Hella S. Haasse's Oeroeg, Sleuteloog and Contemporary Newspaper Reviews | Reinstating a Consensus of Blame: The Film Adaptation of Tessa De Loo's De Tweeling (1993) and Dutch | Notes on ContributorsÌý