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Author:   Renger Bruin ,  Cornelis Haven ,  Lotte Jensen ,  David Onnekink
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.596kg
ISBN:  

9789004304772

ISBN 10:   9004304770
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   08 October 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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The book is freely available in Open Access online. List of Illustrations ... ix Notes on Contributors ... xi Introduction ... 1 Renger E. de Bruin, Cornelis van der Haven, Lotte Jensen and David Onnekink Part 1 The Diplomatic Stage 1 The Olive and the Horse: The Eighteenth-Century Culture of Diplomacy ... 25 Linda Frey and Marsha Frey 2 Behind the Stage: The Global Dimension of the Negotiations ... 40 Lucien Bely 3 `Enemies of their patrie'? Savoyard Identity and the Dilemmas of War, 1690-1713 ... 53 Phil McCluskey 4 Pride and Prejudice: Universal Monarchy Discourse and the Peace Negotiations of 1709-1710 ... 69 David Onnekink Part 2 The Publicity Stage 5 Madame Du Noyer Presenting and Re-presenting the Peace of Utrecht ... 95 Henriette Goldwyn and Suzan van Dijk 6 `Dieu veuille que cette Paix soit de longue duree . . .' The History of the Congress and the Peace of Utrecht by Casimir Freschot ... 114 Heinz Duchhardt 7 The Treaty of Utrecht and Addison's Cato: Britain's War of the Spanish Succession, Peace and the Imperial Road Map ... 123 Samia Al-Shayban 8 Jonathan Swift's Peace of Utrecht ... 142 Clare Jackson 9 Visions of Europe: Contrasts and Combinations of National and European Identities in Literary Representations of the Peace of Utrecht (1713) ... 159 Lotte Jensen Part 3 The Theatrical Stage 10 Theatres of War and Diplomacy on the Early-Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam Stage ... 181 Cornelis van der Haven 11 Performance and Propaganda in Spanish America during the War of the Spanish Succession ... 197 Aaron Alejandro Olivas 12 Promoting the Peace: Queen Anne and the Public Thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral ... 207 Julie Farguson 13 Fiery Metaphors in the Public Space: Celebratory Culture and Political Consciousness around the Peace of Utrecht ... 223 Willem Frijhoff Part 4 The Commemorative Stage 14 Memory Theatre: Remembering the Peace after Three Hundred Years ... 251 Jane O. Newman 15 Peace Was Made Here: The Tercentennial of the Treaty of Utrecht, 2013-2015 ... 266 Renger E. de Bruin Index ... 283

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Renger E. de Bruin, Ph.D. (1986), is curator at the Centraal Museum Utrecht. Moreover, he was a Professor of Utrecht Studies from 2001 to 2011. In 2013 he curated an exhibition on the Treaty of Utrecht in the Centraal Museum, which travelled later to Madrid, Rastatt and Baden. Cornelis van der Haven, Ph.D. (2008), is Assistant Professor at Ghent University in the field of early modern Dutch literature. He published widely about Dutch and German literary history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a strong focus on the role of literature in shaping cultural and social identities. Lotte Jensen, Ph.D. (2001), is Associate Professor of Dutch Literary History at Radboud University, Nijmegen. She has published widely on Dutch historical literature, Dutch cultural history and national identity formation. David Onnekink, Ph.D (2004), is Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations section of the Department of History of the University of Utrecht. He is interested in early modern foreign policy, and the author of The Anglo-Dutch Favourite. The career of Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (Ashgate, 2007).

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