Dutch Culture in a European Perspective 3; 1900; The Age of Bourgeois Culture - Hardcover

In the Netherlands, as in other European countries, the late Nineteenth Century was remarkable on account of its conflicting tendencies. It was characterized by decadence as well as socialist movements, by fin de siècle sentiment as well as scientific discoveries, by religious revival as well as secularization. The authors of this volume bring these diverging tendencies together in a narrative which focuses on the rediscovery or 'reconstruction' of the Golden Age; on the Dutch colonial empire in the East Indies and the relations with South Africa; on the emancipation of the Roman Catholics after 1853; on the Jewish community in Amsterdam and other cities, and on the various Protestant denominations.

JAN BANK is Professor of Dutch History at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, having previously been Extraordinary Professor of History at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He has published books and articles on political history, the history of Dutch television, the years of German occupation, and cultural nationalism in the Nineteenth Century.

MAARTEN VAN BUUREN is Professor Modern French Literature at Utrecht University. He is also director there of the Centre d'Études Françaises. He has published books on the philosophy of literature, stylistics, and modern French literature.