Theodore Van Ryswyck (1811-1849) and Literary Romanticism in Antwerp. University of Antwerp
This project focuses on the function of literature in the modern nation-building process from a literary perspective. The subject of research is the poetry of Theodoor Van Ryswyck: an important figure in the romantic school of Antwerp and a transition figure of a Belgian to a Flemish cultural nationalism. He's the author of a various and, with respect to the content, predominantly political oeuvre. The methodological approach of this research is ...