Nineteenth-century Dutch Literature
This article deals with literature written in Dutch during the nineteenth century in the Dutch-speaking regions (Netherlands, Belgium, Dutch East Indies).
The last years of the 18th century, which had seen decline in the Republic, including the arts and international politics, were marked by a general revival of intellectual force. The romantic movement in Germany made itself deeply felt in all branches of Dutch literature and German lyricism took the place hitherto held by French classicism, in spite of the country falling to French expansionalism (see also History of the Netherlands).
Read more about Nineteenth-century Dutch Literature: The French Era and The United Kingdom of The Netherlands (1795–1839), Ministers, Formalism and Romanticism (1830–1880), The Movement of 1880, 19th Century
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