Literature that bypassed the censor! The alternative literary circuit in Antwerp at the end of the seventeenth century.

The proposed research project is an investigation into the characteristic features and functions of the texts in Het Mengelmoes. The research objective is to offer a first reference framework for the censor-unapproved, alternative literature from the seventeenth-century Southern Low Countries. Therefore, I will analyze the texts in their historical context and compare the texts and genres in Het Mengelmoes with censor-approved texts from parallel genres (e.g. songs in the Nederlandse Liederenbank). The research offers a new and more differentiated perspective on seventeenth-century literature from the Southern Low Countries.

Keywords:HISTORY 17TH CENTURY, LOW COUNTRIES, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Disciplines:History, Language studies, Literary studies, Theory and methodology of language studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Theory and methodology of literary studies, Other languages and literary studies