Table Of ContentDefoe and the Dutch
Defoe and the Dutch
:
Places, Things, People
By
Margaret J-M Sönmez
Defoe and the Dutch: Places, Things, People
By Margaret J-M Sönmez
This book first published 2015
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK
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Copyright © 2015 by Margaret J-M Sönmez
All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced,
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ISBN (10): 1-4438-8048-5
ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-8048-0
For Manuella Jeanne-Marie Eden, 1929–2004
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements .................................................................................... ix
Abbreviations .............................................................................................. x
Introduction: Why the Dutch? ..................................................................... 1
Methodological Issues
Part I: Anglo-Dutch Experiences
Chapter One ............................................................................................... 24
Early Modern England and the United Provinces
Introduction
Direct Contact between the People of the Two Countries
Indirect Contact between the People of the Two Countries
Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 89
Images Related to the Dutch in Early Modern English Writings
Introduction
Prosperity: Trade
Prosperity: Banks and Commerce
An Endangered and Fortified Country
Toleration and Shelter
Bravery, Cruelty, Egalitarianism, Lack of Refinement
Skills in Science, Technology, Crafts and Arts
The Dutch Language
Dutch Places
Dutch Things
Dutch People
viii Contents
Part II: Dutch Elements in Defoe’s Novels
Chapter Three .......................................................................................... 156
Place
Place Identity and Literary Studies
Descriptions of Place in the Defoe novels
Dutch Places in the Defoe Novels
Associations and Images
Physical Places
Resemblances to Emblems of Dutch Geopolitical identity
Concluding Comments
Chapter Four ............................................................................................ 212
Things
Things in Literary Studies
Things in the Defoe Novels
Dutch Things in the Defoe Novels
Concluding Comments
Chapter Five ............................................................................................ 271
People
Analyzing Characters and Voices in Literary Studies
Dutch Characters in the Defoe Novels
Dutch Names, Language and Voices in the Defoe Novels
Concluding Comments
Conclusion ............................................................................................... 306
Notes ........................................................................................................ 319
Bibliography ............................................................................................ 364
Index of People and Places ...................................................................... 389
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I owe a debt of gratitude to all family, friends, colleagues, researchers and
students from near and far who have patiently and encouragingly listened
to me talking about this project, made suggestions, given help and
guidance, gone to the trouble of seeking information for me, answered
emails requesting odd pieces of information at even odder times, offered to
share materials, given bibliographical information and lightened my task
by expressing friendly interest. If I do not write their names here it is
because the list is very long, and I fear accidental omissions. Thanks are
also due to the members of the Defoe Society who responded generously
to emailed calls for help, and to the Biblioteca Nazionale de Napoli, and
the libraries of Bilkent University, Kings College London, the University
of Maastricht, the Middle East Technical University and the Warburg
Institute. Curators and cataloguers working with requests for digital
images from the following institutions were friendly and helpful at all
times: the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, the Rijksmuseum,
Texas University at Austin (the Harry Ransome Popular Images
Collection), the Victoria and Albert Museum and Yale University (the
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and the Lewis Walpole
Collection). I have benefitted greatly from conversations about this project
with my well-read sister Alexandra Boscawen, and the books she has
suggested, lent and given me have been invaluable. The interest of our
dear cousin Ann Hoffmann, who shared with us her lifelong passions for
research, English literature and the Dutch, was a stimulating source of
encouragement. I wish she could have lived to see this book finished.
Finally, I now know why it is that authors so often thank their immediate
families for putting up with them through the writing process: mine has
been extraordinarily patient and good humoured about it all. Thank you
Kerim, Yusuf and Rabia.
ABBREVIATIONS
Within the text the novels of Defoe will be referred to in their commonly
used short title forms: Robinson Crusoe for The Life and Surprizing
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Farther Adventures for The Farther
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and so on. Parenthetical citations to these
novels and other frequently cited works of or about Defoe will take the
form of the following abbreviations:
By or attributed to Defoe:
Atlas: Atlas Maritimus & Commercialis; Or, a General View of the
World
CJ: The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Col.
Jacque
CS: The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain
Singleton
FA: The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
FM: The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History of the Life and Vast
Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards call’d
the Countess de Wintselheim, in Germany.
JPY: A Journal of the Plague Year
MC: Memoirs of a Cavalier
MCT: Memoirs of Count Tariff
MF: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
NV: A New Voyage Round the World
RC: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
SR: Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprizing Adventures of
Robinson Crusoe: with his Vision of the Angelick World.
TBE: The True Born Englishman
Tour: A Tour Thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain
Other abbreviations used in this book:
DD: Daniel Defoe. His Life by Paula R. Backscheider
LDD: The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography by John J. Richetti
MoF: Daniel Defoe: Master of Fictions by Maximillian E. Novak
OED: The Oxford English Dictionary Online
PBDD: A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe by P. N. Furbank and W.
R. Owens
