1st Edition

Milton, Marvell, and the Dutch Republic

By Esther van Raamsdonk Copyright 2021
270 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The tumultuous relations between Britain and the United Provinces in the seventeenth century provide the backdrop to this book, striking new ground as its transnational framework permits an overview of their intertwined culture, politics, trade, intellectual exchange, and religious debate. How the English and Dutch understood each other is coloured by these factors, and revealed through an... Read more

Introduction: Milton, Marvell, and the Dutch Republic

1: Pamphlets and Propaganda: The Dutch Stereotype

2: Milton’s Defences and Dutch Printing Culture

3: Paradise Lost, Upon Appleton House, and the works of Vondel and Huygens

4: Arminian Toleration

5: Predestination and Grace in Milton’s Samson Agonistes and Marvell’s Remarks

6: Samson’s Revolution

7: The Anglo-Dutch Wars, Empire, and Anxiety

Epilogue

Biography

Esther van Raamsdonk is a British Academy Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick, examining the politics of biblical narrative in the Dutch Republic and England. She previously worked on the digital humanities project Networking Archives, and completed a Ph.D. on Milton and Marvell at the University of Exeter. She has published articles on Milton's and Marvell's poetry, Dutch language acquisition, demonology, and travelogues.