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This publication is the first of its kind. It approaches Anglo-Dutch relations from the angle of the production of the highly popular emblem book and its influence on important cultural and political events, mainly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
'It covers more ground [...] than one expects a book of essays to do - and [...] provides an excellent overview of current methologies in the field...' Alison Shell, The Review of English Studies, 1999.
Bart Westerweel, Ph.D. (1983) is Professor of English Renaissance Literature and Director of the Sir Thomas Browne Institute at the University of Leiden. Recently he edited a book on Anglo-Irish Literary History (Amsterdam/Atlanta, 1995), and published on Spenser, Shakespeare, Herbert, emblems, and the Gothic novel.