Weijermars, Janneke2013-04-112013-04-112011Werkwinkel vol. 6(1), 2011, pp. 65-92.1896-3307http://hdl.handle.net/10593/5838During the United Kingdom of the Netherlands 1815-1830, when the Low Countries were united under king Willem I, a new Dutch literary review De Argus was published in Brussels. The editors had the intention to build up a Dutch literature for the whole new nation, with originality, patriotism and simplicity as its features, but they used unorthodox methods to achieve their goals. In this study we investigate the traditional and new aspects of De Argus’s reviews. For that we will zoom in on the principle of politeness, which was normally used by late eighteen-century and early nineteen-century reviewers to protect an open literary debate.otherUnited Kingdom of the Netherlandsliterary reviewLodewijk Gerard Visschernineteenth centuryJan WapArtykuł