Esther van Raamsdonk

Dr Esther van Raamsdonk

Department: Humanities
Discipline: English
Research Centre/Unit: Centre for Early Modern Studies

Project Summary

Published Articles:

‘Lisa Jardine: An Explorer in Anglo-Dutch History’, Anglo-Netherlands Society Centenary Publication 1920-2020 (commissioned by the Anglo-Netherlands Society: Forthcoming, autumn 2019).

‘Milton’s Dutch Satan and Vondel’s English Lucifer’, Renaissance Studies (special issue on transnationalism), (Forthcoming).

With Alan Moss (University of Nijmegen), ‘Across the Narrow Sea: A Transnational Approach to Seventeenth-Century English and Dutch Travelogues’, The Seventeenth Century (online advance copy already available) (2018).

‘Creation in Milton’s Paradise Lost and Vondel’s Adam in Ballingschap (1660)’, Milton Quarterly, 51.2 (May, 2017).

‘Did Milton Know Dutch?’, Notes and Queries, 63.1 (March, 2016): 53-56. 

 

Selected Reviews: 

‘Review: Marco Barducci, Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718 (Oxford University Press, 2017)’, Renaissance Studies (forthcoming).

‘Review: Philip Connell, Secular Chains: Poetry & Politics of Religion from Milton to Pope (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)’, MLR, 112.3 (July, 2017).

‘Review: Helmer Helmers, Royalist Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2015)’, English Historic Review, 132 (January, 2017).

 

Wider Research Interests

I have an interest in cultural exchanges in early modern Europe and its affects for early modern literature, whether these are theological, political or philosophical ideas, the history of science or purely literary influences. I am particularly interested in English and Dutch seventeenth century writers, with an emphasis on Milton, Marvell, Vondel, Huygens and Dryden.