Drs. N.H.G.E. (Bart) Veldhoen
- Lecturer
- English language and culture
- Medieval English literature (including nineteenth-century revival)
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2161 |
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| E-Mail: | n.h.g.e.veldhoen@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Cultural Disciplines, Oude Britse letterkunde |
| Office Address: |
Witte Singel-complex P.N. van Eyckhof 4 2311 BV Leiden Room number 2.06b |
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2161 |
| E-Mail: | n.h.g.e.veldhoen@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Cultural Disciplines, Oude Britse letterkunde |
| Office Address: |
Witte Singel-complex P.N. van Eyckhof 4 2311 BV Leiden Room number 2.06b |
Fields of interest
Medieval literature in European context; medieval romances of royalty and chivalry; Chaucer; medievalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and its historical context; Tolkien; the Holy Grail through the ages
Research
Narrative techniques in the Middle Ages in England and the Netherlands; genre theory and psychological models for “ritual” and “ceremony”; medieval revival from Coleridge to Dan Brown, especially Tennyson and Tolkien; Chaucer’s “ironic” techniques; symbolism and its relation to nationalism and propaganda
Curriculum Vitae
1975-77 Translator (newspapers and freelance)
1977-79 Teacher secondary education and teacher-training college (translation, phonetics)
1979-86 Lecturer Modern English Literature, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
1983-86 National secretary Post-Academic Education / in-service training English Language and Literature
1986-today Lecturer Middle English Literature, Leiden University
Education/Teaching: Courses in Middle English Literature BA, and M,A,
Interdepartmental courses “Great Books of the Middle Ages” and various themes in medieval literature.
Publications
Henk Aertsen & Bart Veldhoen (eds.), Six Papers from the 28th Symposium on Medeval Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 15 december 2006, Leiden 2008, vi + 108 pp.
"Chaucer's Bookends: the Frame of Reference", in: Henk Aertsen & Bart Veldhoen (eds.), Six Papers from the 28th Symposium on Medeval Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 15 december 2006, Leiden 2008, p. 83-93.
“I Haffe Spedde Better Þan I Wend: Some Notes on the Structure of the ME Sir Perceval of Galles”, Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters 11 (1981), 279-286.
“Floris and Blauncheflour: To Indulge the Fancy and to Hear of Love”, in Companion to Early Middle English Literature, eds. N,H.G.E, Veldhoen & H. Aertsen, Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1988, pp. 53-67.
“Which was the mooste fre: Chaucer’s realistic humour and insight into human nature, as shown in The Frankeleyns Tale”, in In Other Words: Transcultural Studies in philology, translation and lexicology..., eds. J. Lachlan Mackenzie & Richard Todd, Dordrecht: Foris, 1989, pp. 107-116.
“Psychology and the Middle English Romances: Preliminaries to Readings of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, and Sir Launfal”, in Companion to Middle English Romance, eds. Henk Aertsen & Alasdair A. MacDonald, Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1990, pp. 101-128
“Towards National Identity: Literary Manipulation in the Arthurian Section of Layamon’s Brut”, in “Der muoz mir suezer worte jehen”: Liber amicorum fur Norbert Voorwinden, eds. Ludo Jongen & Sjaak Onderdelinden, Amsterdamer Beitrige zur alteren Germanistik, Band 48, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997, pp. 19-30.
“The Roman van Walewein Laced With Castles”, Arthurian Literature XVII: Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman van Walewein. eds. Bart Besamusca & Erik Kooper, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1999, pp. 147-167.
“Tennyson’s Gothic: Idyllic, Unromantic Arthur”, in Victorian Keats and Romantic Carlyle: The Fusions and Confusions of Literary Periods, ed. CC. Barfoot, DQR Studies in Literature 27, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999, pp. 299-306.
“Best of Gawain: A Comparison of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Roman van Walewein”, in King Arthur in the medieval Low Countries, eds. Geert H.M. Claassens & David F. Johnson, Mediaevalia Lovaniensia Series 1/ Studia XXVIII, Leuven University Press, 2000, pp. 35-43.
“J.R.R. Tolkien, Philologist and Holist”, Lembas-Extra 2004, ed. Ron Pirson, The Dutch Tolkien Society, pp. 114.
"Reason versus Nature in Dunbar’s ‘Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo”, in And Never Know the Joy: Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry, ed. C.C. Barfoot, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006, pp. 49-63.
“Niet van deze wereld: Fantasies van Mediëvisten-Professoren”, in De Zee, De Zee, eds. Remke Kruk & Jef Houppermans, Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers, 2007, pp. 97-114.
2011
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Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. (2011)
Een academische romance: David Lodge, Small World. In: Houppermans, J.J.M., Jacobs, J.G.A.M., Kruk, R. (Eds.), Déjà Vu. Herhaling in culturen wereldwijd, pp. 253-273. Leiden: Leiden University Press.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2009
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Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. & Aertsen, Henk (Eds.) (2009)
Bezorging third edition van Companion to Early Middle English Literature. Amsterdam: Amsterdam VU University Press.
(Book editorial)
2008
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Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. (2008)
Chaucer's Bookends: the Frame of Reference. In Aertsen, H. & Veldhoen, Bart (Eds.) Six Papers from the 28th Symposium on Medieval Studies (pp. 83-93). Amsterdam: Free University Press.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Aertsen, H. & Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. (Eds.) (2008)
Six Papers from the 28th Symposium on Medieval Studies. Amsterdam: Free University Press.
(Book editorial)
2007
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Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. (2007)
Niet van deze wereld: Fantasies van mediëvisten-professoren. In Kruk, R. & Houppermans, J.M.M. (Eds.) De Zee, de Zee in literaturen wereldwijd (pp. 97-114). Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2006
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Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. (2006)
Reason versus Nature in Dunbar's "Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo". In Barfoot, C.C. (Ed.) "And Never Know the Joy": Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry (pp. 49-63). Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2004
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Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. (2004)
J.R.R. Tolkien: Philologist and Holist. In Pirson, R. (Ed.) Lembas-Extra 2004 (pp. 1-14). Leiden
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2003
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Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. (2003)
Review. [Bespreking van: The Genesis of Narrative in Malory's Morte Darthur (Arthurian Studies XLIII)]. In: English Studies, 84, pp. 94-97.
(Book review)
2000
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Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. (2000)
Best of Gawain: A Comparison of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Roman van Walewein. In: Claassens, G.H.M. & Johnson, D.F. (Eds.), King Arthur in the Medieval Low Countries (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Series 1 / Studia XXVIII), pp. 35-43. Leuven, België: Leuven University Press.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
1999
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Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. (1999)
Tennyson's Gothic: Idyllic, Unromantic Arthur. In: Barfoot, C.C. (Ed.), Victorian Keats and Romantic Carlyle: The fusions and confusions of literary periods (DQR Studies in Literature), 27. , pp. 299-307. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.
(Part of book or chapter of book) -
Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. (1999)
The Roman van Walewein Laced with Castles. In: Besamusca, B. & Kooper, E. (Eds.), Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman van Walewein (Arthurian Literature), XVII. , pp. 147-167. Cambridge, Engeland: D.S. Brewer.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
1997
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Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. (1997)
A literary-symbolic typology of castles in Arthurian literature. In Kooper, E. (Ed.) Current research on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (pp. 106-112). Utrecht
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. (1997)
Towards National Identity. Literary Manipulation in the Arthurian Section of Layamon's Brut. In: Jongen, L. & Onderdelinden, S. (Eds.), Der muoz mir süezer worte jehen. Liber amicorum für Norbert Voorwinden (Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik), 48. , pp. 19-30. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
1995
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Veldhoen, N.H.G.E. & Aertsen, H. (1995)
Companion to Early Middle English Literature. Second enlarged edition. Amsterdam: VU University Press.
(Book (monograph))