Nederlandse Letterkunde - Volume 18, Issue 2, 2013

This article focuses on the eighteenth-century readers of Wolff and Deken’s Sara Burgerhart (1782), who were guided by many fictional readers in the novel. The fictional readers became their compatriots, who teached them how, what and why to read. In this way, fictional readers functioned as instruments of ‘literary socialization’ for the historical readers of the Sara Burgerhart. The analysis of reading in Sara Burgerhart buil Read More

Pre-war radio programmes concerning literature are often described in terms of book promotion, either in the sense of cultural mediation or commercial publicity. This article, however, shows that book programmes also functioned as cultural platforms that allowed literary debates and critical issues to be extended from their printed origins into the realm of new media. By exploring the literary programmes of the Protes Read More