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Jacob Campo Weyerman’s Comments on the Customs and Manners of his Time
A Merry Moralist
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The nucleus of Jacob Campo Weyerman’s (1677–1747) literary oeuvre is the weekly periodical he published under varying titles from 1720 to the end of his life. He was its sole contributor and editor. This book consists of key excerpts supplemented by a scholarly apparatus that contextualizes Weyerman's witty and satirical comments on the customs and manners of his cocitizens. His moralizing observations constitute a mirror of Dutch society in the second quarter of the eighteenth century in the decades before new socio-cultural paradigms associated with the Enlightenment and Romanticism took hold.
Lyckle de Vries, PhD (1977, Groningen University) was Senior Lecturer of Art History of the Early Modern Period at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (1970–2000). He published extensively on Dutch art, art criticism, and art theory of the seventeenth century. His books include studies on Jan Steen (1977), Jan van der Heyden (1984), Johan van Gool (1990), Gerard de Lairesse (1998, 2011), and Jacob Campo Weyerman (2020).
“an important book [...] the English translation in particular shows the special nature of Weyerman's expansion and appropriation. For the Weyerman beginner, the anthology is an infectious introduction. [...] Thanks to De Vries, Weyerman and his virtuoso style are given a place of honor in European literature. [...] His portrayal of Weyerman as a satirist and moralist is illuminating.”
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Preface
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Career
2. Sources
3. Satire
4. Style
5. Urban culture
6. Reputation
7. Conclusion
1. An adventurous eyewitness
1. Telling the truth with a smile
2. Self portrait of a man-about-town
2. A country and its inhabitants
1. National identity
2. A princely republic
3. The English
4. The merchant
5. Nobility
6. Noble vices
7. Harmful luxuries
3. Variations on the seventh commandment
1. Love, adoration, and contempt
2. The undisciplined
3. The libertines
4. Marriage
5. The outsiders
4. A civilised people
1. Humanity and culture
2. Science
3. Dangerous professions
4. Literature
5. Theatre
5. Knowing and believing
1. Philosophy and religion
2.The Pope
3. Monks and nuns
4. The Jesuits
5. Religious superstition
6. Secular superstition
Epilogue
Index
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Career
2. Sources
3. Satire
4. Style
5. Urban culture
6. Reputation
7. Conclusion
1. An adventurous eyewitness
1. Telling the truth with a smile
2. Self portrait of a man-about-town
2. A country and its inhabitants
1. National identity
2. A princely republic
3. The English
4. The merchant
5. Nobility
6. Noble vices
7. Harmful luxuries
3. Variations on the seventh commandment
1. Love, adoration, and contempt
2. The undisciplined
3. The libertines
4. Marriage
5. The outsiders
4. A civilised people
1. Humanity and culture
2. Science
3. Dangerous professions
4. Literature
5. Theatre
5. Knowing and believing
1. Philosophy and religion
2.The Pope
3. Monks and nuns
4. The Jesuits
5. Religious superstition
6. Secular superstition
Epilogue
Index
Scholars, graduate and undergraduate students interested in the history and culture of the urbanised part of the Western world, especially Holland, in the eighteenth century, in particular its customs and manners. Keywords: satire, periodicals, literature, ancients versus moderns, theatre, national identity, religion, anti-Papism, social classes, Huguenots, corruption, sexual morals, customs and manners, man-about-town, conspicuous consumption.