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"Proud, Fierce, Insolent". Images of the Hungarians in Catherine Gore's Novels

Lengyel, Réka (2020) "Proud, Fierce, Insolent". Images of the Hungarians in Catherine Gore's Novels. In: Ungarn als Gegenstand und Problem der fiktionalen Literatur (ca. 1550–2000). Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg, pp. 241-256.

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Abstract

In the history of Anglo-Hungarian cultural relations, the period when the interest of English people turned to the history, traditions, language, and intellectual life of the Hungarian nation can be precisely marked. It can be seen from isolated data that from 1700 onwards Hungary became somewhat better known to the English, particularly in the last decades of the eighteenth century. Hungary was frequently visited by the English in the eighteenth century, and we have a number of travelogues, diaries, and letters that provide a faithful picture of the current situation in the country. For this reason we can assign particular importance to the publication of eight short stories written by Catherine Frances Gore, one of the most widely read authors of her time.6 Gore is assumed to have spent some time in Hungary, and described her experiences not in travel books but in literary form. Her main objective is to introduce Hungary and the Hungarians to British readers. She was a keen observer of the Hungarian political and social life of the time, and also made use of the travel notes and books of Bright and Townson. In presenting the everyday life of different groups of Hungarian people, she combines elements of both realism and romanticism. In this article, I am primarily concerned with the examination of the ways in which Gore describes Hungary, its people of different nationalities, among whom she pays special attention to the Hungarians. By focusing on various parts of the novels, I investigate which data, patterns, and motifs determine the images of Hungary and the Hungarians, and how real facts and information are implemented in the stories produced by Gore’s imagination.

Item Type: Book Section
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PE English / anglisztika
P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PH Finno-Ugrian, Basque languages and literatures / finnugor és baszk nyelvek és irodalom > PH04 Hungarian language and literature / magyar nyelv és irodalom
Depositing User: Dr Réka Lengyel
Date Deposited: 07 Feb 2021 05:10
Last Modified: 07 Feb 2021 05:10
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/120752

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