V. Literature as an Elite Phenomenon

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface and Acknowledgments vii
4. 1: The Middle Ages until circa 1400 1
5. 2: The Late Middle Ages and the Age of the Rhetoricians, 1400–1560
6. I. Literary Life in the City 63
7. II. The Chambers of Rhetoric 96
8. III. Literature and the Printing Press 129
9. IV. Farewell to the Middle Ages 147
10. 3: The Dutch Revolt and the Golden Age, 1560–1700
11. Introduction 153
12. I. Literature and the Dutch Revolt 154
13. II. Renaissance and Renewal 174
14. III. Literature as a Medium of Instruction: Drama 191
15. IV. Literature as a Medium of Instruction: Prose and Poetry 226
16. V. Literature as an Elite Phenomenon 259
17. 4: Literature of the Enlightenment, 1700–1800
18. I. Introduction 293
19. II. Early Enlightenment Literature, 1680–1725 301
20. III. Classical Poetry and Modern Prose, 1725–1760 323
21. IV. The Shaping of a National Literature, 1760–1800 338
22. 5: The Nineteenth Century, 1800–1880
23. I. Introduction 369
24. II. The Early Decades 383
25. III. The Historical Novel 400
26. IV. From Byronic Poetry to Realist Prose 414
27. V. Literary Critics 420
28. VI. Multatuli 429
29. VII. Poetry Around and After the Mid-Century 439
30. 6: Renewal and Reaction, 1880–1940
31. I. Literary Renewal, 1880–1893 463
32. II. A New “Spiritual” Art, 1893–1916 493
33. III. Between Two World Wars: 1916–1940 532
34. 7: The Postwar Period, 1940–
35. I. From the Hunger Winter to the First Morning, 1940–1960 573
36. II. The Revolution of the Sixties, 1960–1970 603
37. III. The Imagination Seizes Power, 1970–1980 623
38. IV. The Ego Looks Back, 1980– 645
39. Bibliography 657
40. List of English Translations of Literary Works 667
41. Index 707