Shaping “Belgian” Literature before 1830: Multilingual Patterns and Cultural Transfer in Flemish and French Periodicals in the Southern Low Countries KU Leuven
If still largely underexplored, proto-Belgian 18th-century literature in turn has to date mainly been described from a nation-state, monolinguistic perspective. The present project aims to broaden this perspective by investigating the extent to which proto-Belgian literature was subject to transcultural influences, as well as how it was in turn actively involved in the process of European literary exchange. The specific focus of the project ...