"Shaping “Belgian” literature before 1830 KU Leuven
Up till now, most historical research on 18th century literature in the Southern Netherlands has disregarded its multicultural and multilingual dynamics, adopting a predominantly monocultural (either French or Flemish) perspective and thereby overlooking a wealth of archive material. The current project seeks to explore the nature and functioning of this highly heterogeneous, “proto-Belgian”, literary and cultural community, that took shape ...