Next year (9-10 February, 2018) a conference will be organised at Ghent University about perspectives for a transnational literary history of the Low Countries. This conference – Literature without Frontiers? – aims to bring together a number of telling examples that advocate a transnational perspective for the construction and writing of the literary history (histories?) of the Low Countries in the period 1200-1800. We invite scholars of the periods involved to address case studies (authors, texts, translations, mechanisms of textual production, motifs, tropes, genres) that on account of their ‘transnational’ character have fallen outside the scope of the current attempts of literary historiography.
Proposals for a thirty-minute presentation are expected soon, by June 1st, 2017. For more details, see the complete call for papers.
Werkgroep Zeventiende Eeuw 