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• Hoe de Nederlandse juffers met liefde omgingen: De wereld van de gevoelens in Historie van mejuffrouw Sara Burgerhart (1782) van Elisabeth Wolff en Agatha Deken

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  Jan Urbaniak

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  Love played an important role in Wolff and Deken’s 18th-century bestseller, The History
  of Miss Sara Burgerhart. The attitude to the feelings allowed the reader to get to know the
  novel’s characters thoroughly. That how they talked about love and made love helped in
  the reconstruction of their character drawing. Sara – the title character of the novel – went
  through a development that also changed her conception of love: from the irresponsible
  teenager who enjoyed the company of various, sometimes rowdy boys, she gradually
  became an ideal wife and mother, with whom the sincere love prevailed. In this
  contribution, several models of love in the Sara Burgerhart epistolary novel were
  contrasted: the French-tinted, sentimentally colored libertine love game with the calm,
  reasoned feelings in the Dutch way. The result of such contradiction is easy to guess.