The Role and Impact of the Weekly Magazine Nemzeti Társalkodó (1830–1844) in Transylvania

Szakál, Anna (2024) The Role and Impact of the Weekly Magazine Nemzeti Társalkodó (1830–1844) in Transylvania. KNIHA. ISSN 1336-5436 (In Press)

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Abstract

The study examines the 12 years of the Nemzeti Társalkodó [National Companion] (1830– 1844), the auxiliary of the Erdélyi Híradó [’Transylvanian News’], the first Transylvanian political weekly, examining the travelogues, country-presentations published in it. On the one hand, it shows how the newspaper as a medium contributed to the fashion of travel, how it conveyed widely usable knowledge about travel, and how it helped readers acquire the available knowledge about travel. On the other hand, it also examines the image of folklore conveyed by Nemzeti Társalkodó, tracking what folklore knowledge appeared in the weekly, what it was able to convey to its readers, which genres of knowledge can be demonstrated, and how all this is related to the growing number of travelogues. The study identifies the people who made the travelogues as progressive reformist, mostly protestant oppositionists who played an important role in the Transylvanian society of the reform era, being in contact with each other.

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