This one year research, funded by the Sapientia Foundation, proposes to uncover and analyze English and American travel accounts to Hungary and Transylvania in the 19th century.
The research investigates English and American travel accounts on Hungary and Transylvania during the nineteenth century. It aims at establishing an inventory of, and discussing the most prestigious travelogues of the time, such as the texts of John Paget, Archibald Andrew Paton, John Arthur Patterson and Charles Loring Brace. Moreover, the project also attempts to create a database that would structure the information in the aforementioned travelogues according to cities and regions.
It is also our goal to provide an analysis of the ways in which Hungary and Transylvania were seen and depicted by Anglo-Saxon travellers, while we also attempt to offer an insight into nineteenth-century Hungarian society and culture as contrasted to Western European culture and politics. Our purpose is not only to provide a general presentation of the English and American travellers’ journals, but also to discuss these texts against theories of travel literature as well as studies in imagology.
The travel writings that are analyzed in this project are the following:
- John Paget: Hungary and Transylvania (1839)
- Archibald Andrew Paton: The Goth and the Hun; or, Transylvania, Debreczin, Pesth and Vienna, in 1850
- Charles Loring Brace: Hungary in 1851: with an Experience of the Austrian Police
- Arthur J. Patterson: The Magyars (1869)
Research Team
Research coordinator:
Researchers::
- Henrietta Hőgye -2nd year English Major
Research area and project tasks:
The analysis of Andrew Archibald Paton’s travelogue, data organization, presentation at the annual student conference - Krisztina Szenderszki -2nd year English Major
Research area and project tasks:
The analysis of Charles Loring Brace’s travelogue, data organization, presentation at the annual student conference - Adrienn Nyári -2nd year English Major
Research area and project tasks:
The analysis of John Arthur Patterson’s travelogue, data organization, presentation at the annual student conference - Orsolya Nagy -2nd year English Major
Research area and project tasks:
The analysis of John Paget’s travelogue, data organization, presentation at the annual student conference
Database
materials for download
Borbála BÖKÖS
- Representations of Hungary and Transylvania in John Pagets Travelogue
Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica, 9, 1 (2017) 87−98 Full text in PDF - “(De)Constructing 19th Century Hungarian Stereotypes in John Paget's Travelogue.” IN English Language & literatures in English 2016. Budapest: L'Harmattan; Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem, 2018. 29-38. ISBN:978-963-414-433-5 Full Text in Pdf
Students’ Conference Papers:
- Adrienn Nyári: On Hungarian and Transylvanian Stereotypes in Arthur J. Patterson’s Travelogue
Full Text in PDF - Krisztina Szenderszki: Hungarian National Identity in the Middle of the 19th Century Through the Lens of an American Traveler
Full Text in PDF - Orsolya-Boglárka Bozsódi-Nagy: Civilizing the 'Uncivilized'. Colonial Approaches in John Paget's Travelogue on Hungary and Transylvania
Full Text in PDF - Henrietta Hőgye: The Urban Life Described by Paton in The Goth and The Hun
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