1st Edition
European Literary History An Introduction
This clear and engaging book offers readers an introduction to European Literary History from antiquity through to the present day. Each chapter discusses a short extract from a literary text, whilst including a close reading and a longer essay examining other key texts of the period and their place within European Literature. Offering a view of Europe as an evolving cultural space and examining the mobility and travel of literature both within and out of Europe, this guide offers an introduction to the dynamics of major literary networks, international literary networks, publication cultures and debates, and the cultural history of 'Europe' as a region as well as a concept.
List of illustrations
List of contributors
General Introduction
Maarten De Pourcq
PART I
Antiquity
André Lardinois and Claire Stocks
1.1 Introduction
André Lardinois and Claire Stocks
1.2 Travelling in Greek and Roman Literature
Rebecca Armstrong and Katherine Clarke
Homer, Odyssey
1.3 Experiencing Life and Love
Ellen Greene and André Lardinois
Sappho, "Sappho’s Prayer to Aphrodite"
1.4 Performing Culture
Bernhard Zimmermann
Sophocles, Antigone
1.5 Making Literature
Koen De Temmerman and Bé Breij
Horace, Ars Poetica
1.6 Remembering the Past
Nita Krevans and Ruth Scodel
Horace, Ode 3.30
PART II
Middle Ages
Frank Brandsma and Erik Kooper
2.1 Introduction
Frank Brandsma
2.2 Desiring
Roy Rosenstein
Jaufre Rudel, "Vida"
2.3 Searching for the Grail
Frank Brandsma
Chrétien de Troyes, Le Conte du Graal
2.4 Reaching Salvation
Roberto Rea
Dante Alighieri, Commedia
2.5 Telling Tales
Erik Kooper
Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
2.6 Self-Fashioning
Madeleine Jeay
Christine de Pizan, Le Livre de la Cité des dames
PART III
Early Modern Period
Nina Geerdink and Alicia C. Montoya
3.1 Introduction
Nina Geerdink and Alicia C. Montoya
3.2 Staging
Nina Geerdink and Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez
Joost van den Vondel, Palamedes, oft vermoorde onnooselheyd
3.3 Reading
Robert Folger and Konstantin Mierau
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
3.4 Exploring new worlds
Konstantin Mierau, Alicia C. Montoya and Catriona Seth
Luís Vaz de Camões, Os Lusíadas
3.5 Corresponding
Catriona Seth
Choderlos de Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses
3.6 Educating
Alicia C. Montoya
Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Magasin des enfants
PART IV
The Long Nineteenth Century
Marguérite Corporaal and Lotte Jensen
4.1 Introduction
Marguérite Corporaal and Lotte Jensen
4.2 Feeling
Anke Gilleir
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Leiden des jungen Werther
4.3 Defining the Nation
Lotte Jensen
Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
4.4 Circulating Traditions
Marguérite Corporaal and Raphaël Ingelbien
Hans Christian Andersen, Snedronningen
4.5 Selling Literature
Chris Louttit
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret
4.6 Emancipating
Marguérite Corporaal and Sophie Levie
Lev Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
PART V
The Modern Era
Helleke van den Braber, Sophie Levie and Mathijs Sanders
5.1 Introduction
Helleke van den Braber, Sophie Levie and Mathijs Sanders
5.2 Breaking Boundaries
Sophie Levie
Gabriele d’Annunzio, Il Piacere
5.3 Ordering Chaos
Kai Evers
Franz Kafka, In der Strafkolonie
5.4 Marketing Literature
Helleke van den Braber and Mathijs Sanders
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
5.5 Writing the City
László Muntéan and Pedro Lange
Heinrich Böll, Der Engel schwieg
5.6 Changing Europe
Theo D’haen
Zadie Smith, White Teeth
Bibliography
Index of terms
Index of authors and works
Biography
Maarten De Pourcq is Professor of European Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Sophie Levie is Professor emeritus of Literary and Cultural Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.
