scholarly journals Travel Writing, Literature, and Romance: Polixéna Wesselényi’s Travels in Italy and Switzerland

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Márta Pellérdi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Married Woman ◽  
East Central ◽  
Cultural Constraints ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
East Central European ◽  
Favourable Situation ◽  
European Women ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract Polixéna Wesselényi’s Travels in Italy and Switzerland, the first travel narrative that was written by a woman in Hungary and Transylvania, is a work little known to the wider international public, as it was published in Hungarian in 1842, seven years after her tour. There are few travel narratives written by East-Central European women in the first half of the nineteenth century. This essay attempts to reflect upon Wesselényi’s personal motives, her intellect and literary craftsmanship, as well as the cultural constraints she had to encounter. The romantic nature of the relationship between Wesselényi, a married woman, and the fellow travel writer John Paget, is also mirrored by the text. Travels in Italy and Switzerland not only offers an insight into the relatively favourable situation of Transylvanian women of the aristocracy in the 1830s but also shows that it had the power to inspire the works of celebrated Hungarian novelists after its publication. Although Wesselényi’s style conforms to the picturesque and sentimental travel writing published by European women in the period, it justly demands a place for itself on the list of distinguished nineteenth-century European travel writing by women.

Socioeconomic Change, Peasant Household Structure and Demographic Behavior in a French Department

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-181
Author(s):  
James R. Lehning
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Household Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Socioeconomic Change ◽  
Demographic Behavior ◽  
Peasant Household ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

The article focuses on the relationship between social and economic structure and household structure, on the one hand, and household structure and demographic behavior on the other. The analysis provides some insight into the factors that determined household structure and demographic behavior in the two nineteenth-century villages in the Loire district in France-one village agricultural and the other with a protoindustrial sector. Labor needs imposed on the household by the economy helped to determine the structure of that household, and, especially by way of nuptiality, such considerations could also affect reproduction. Nevertheless, it would be pressing the evidence much too far to suggest that only household structure determined demographic behavior.

Preaching at the British Association for the Advancement of Science: sermons, secularization and the rhetoric of conflict in the 1870s

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
CIARAN TOAL
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
British Association ◽  
Complex Dynamic ◽  
Association Meeting ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractMuch attention has been given to the science–religion controversies attached to the British Association for the Advancement of Science, from the infamous 1860 Huxley–Wilberforce debate at Oxford to John Tyndall's 1874 ‘Belfast Address’. Despite this, almost no attention has been given to the vast homiletic literature preached during the British Association meetings throughout the nineteenth century. During an association meeting the surrounding churches and halls were packed with men of science, as local and visiting preachers sermonized on the relationship between science and religion. These sermons are revealing, particularly in the 1870s when the ‘conflict thesis’ gained momentum. In this context, this paper analyses the rhetoric of conflict in the sermons preached during the meetings of the association, exploring how science–religion conflict was framed and understood through time. Moreover, it is argued that attention to the geography of the Sunday activities of the British Association provides insight into the complex dynamic of nineteenth-century secularization.

Peculiarities of the Translation and Adaptation of the Concept of Nation in East-Central Europe

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-101
Author(s):  
Victor Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Controversial Issue ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
Political Cultures ◽  
East Central European

This article explores the controversial issue of concepts defining the East-Central European Romanian and Hungarian identities (nem, neam, popor, nép). It specifically focuses on the translation and adaptation of the German concept of nation by examining the inclusive or exclusive meanings this concept acquired in these two languages and political cultures during the first half of the nineteenth century.

SONS AND LOVERS: TENNYSON'S FRATERNAL PATERNITY

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 451-466
Author(s):  
Monica M. Young-Zook
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
Father Figures ◽  
Oedipal Complex ◽  
Paternal Parent ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Mourning And Melancholia ◽  
British Culture ◽  
Insight Into

TERRY EAGLETONhas suggested that “the mid-nineteenth century bourgeois state had problems in resolving its Oedipus complex” (76). Eagleton's semi-serious remark certainly holds true for nineteenth-century British culture, which, while supposedly patriarchal in its political structures, features a great number of significant literary narratives in which the paternal parent is either missing, dead, or never mentioned. The poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, are no exception. Gerhard Joseph, Christopher Ricks, and Linda Shires, among others, turn to Freudian psychoanalysis, the Oedipal complex, and Freud's seminal essay “Mourning and Melancholia” for insight into why so many father figures are absent from Tennyson's work. Yet neither the Oedipus complex nor “melancholia” accounts for how these father figures, while literally absent, are nevertheless present and influential. Another model is needed to describe the relationship between Tennyson, the missing paternal figures of his narratives, and the age that he has come to represent.

scholarly journals Calculation as a cultural practice in modern literature

Neohelicon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 497-508
Author(s):  
László Bengi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
East Central ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Central European ◽  
Raster Image ◽  
East Central European

Abstract The opposition between quantitative sciences and the humanities is a well-known problem of cultural debates, along with its reflection in the conflicting approaches to digital humanities. As the emphasis has moved from long-standing scientific methods of quantification to the overall digital turn of everyday life, this process sheds light on the varying sociocultural conditions for calculations in modern societies. Consequently, numbers cannot be conceived as inherent properties of things by discovery through experimentation and explanation: this essentialist conception seems to originate in a misunderstanding of nineteenth-century scientific research and its claim of objectivity. Rather, quantification and the cultural matrices of calculation build a raster image serving as an interface between world and mind. In this broad sense, everyday life is deeply pervaded by numbers. Moreover, the ability for calculations cannot be treated as a uniform skill any more. Instead, it varies in accordance with different cultural forms and functions. Number-based practices are also represented widely in modern literature and in non-literary works, such as being in the letters and diaries of many writers. The essay is thus intended to analyze and compare the forms of calculation in the novels and diaries of some East Central European writers—such as Kafka, Kosztolányi, Musil—who thrived in the first decades of the twentieth century. In so doing, it describes three models through which calculation as a cultural practice enters the field of literature.

European Integration: The Rescue of the Nation State?

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Bideleux
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
National Interests ◽  
East Central ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Money Illusion ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
East Central European ◽  
The Eu

Rejecting claims that European integration has been inimical or antithetical to nations, states, and ‘national’ interests, Alan Milward's The European Rescue of the Nation-State (1992) argues that the relationship between European integration and the nation-state has been mutually beneficial and supportive. This article discusses the European Union's ‘rescues’ of small and sub-state nations, languages, cultures, and minorities; EU state-building and ‘rescues of the nation-state’ in the post-Communist East Central European, Baltic, and Balkan regions; transformations of the states in need of ‘rescue’, focusing on ‘embedded neoliberalism’; the EU and ‘the nation-state’ after the Lisbon Treaty of 2009; the ‘Great Recession’ of 2008–2009 and the eurozone crises of 2010–2012; and the decade-long ‘money illusion’ of economic prosperity in Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain.

Edward Lear

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-44
Author(s):  
Marco Graziosi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Graphic Narrative ◽  
History Of ◽  
Comic Art ◽  
History Of Literature ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Picture Stories

Edward Lear has secured a prominent position in the history of literature and travel writing thanks to his nonsense books and his journals; he is considered one of the most innovative zoological illustrators of the nineteenth century and is being rediscovered as a landscape painter in watercolour and oil. This article argues that he also deserves to be remembered among the precursors of modern comic art. His picture stories, though never published in his lifetime, represent an early instance of autobiographical graphic narrative, while his limericks, never out of print since 1861, introduced a radically innovative caricatural style and a conception of the relationship between pictures and text that strongly influenced modern comic artists.

Sentimentalism, Joseph Joachim, and the English

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-154
Author(s):  
Stephen Downes
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
Concert Hall ◽  
The Public ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
Joseph Joachim ◽  
Critical Turn ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Joseph Joachim’s role in nineteenth-century English concert life is long celebrated. As yet unexamined, however, is how his performances and reception informed critical debates on sentimentalism. Joachim was a prominent celebrity in the domestic salons of mid-century, for example the Holland Park Circle, where his performances were described as perfect echoes of beautiful interior designs and his status confirmed by G. F. Watts’s famous portrait. This article builds on the relationship between “sublime sentimentality” and “domestic aestheticism” in the writings of John Ruskin, a prominent member of these salons. It explores how Ruskin’s idea of moving from domestic “sites,” through “patterns” to “states” in which the heartfelt is expressed in coded, synecdochal or allusive evocation, even in abstract design, can offer insight into the sentimental dimensions of Joachim’s salon performances. Crucially, Ruskin considered both domesticity and sentimentalism as designs and expressions of feeling which are capable of expansion into large forms and contexts, of moving from the intimate to the public. The second part of this article explores sentimentalism in works composed for the concert hall, provoking critical debate at the turn of the century. Tovey’s Victorian tastes were strongly influenced by both Joachim and Ruskin, but Tovey’s assessments of Joachim as the violinist reached the end of his career exemplify the wide critical turn against mid-century sentimentalism. In 1902 Tovey praised Joachim for making no concession to public sentimentalism, in particular through demonstrating a “Classical” grasp of form, by contrast with those who seek sentimental effect through slowing down the performance of “beautiful” passages. In a late echo of Ruskin, Tovey desired that one must be susceptible to the beauty of “design.” The article ends by comparing Sargent’s late portrait of Joachim, presented at the Jubilee celebrations of 1904, with that of Watts.

Making and Defending a Polish Town: “Lwów” (Lemberg), 1848-1914

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 57-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harald Binder
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Language Barriers ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central European ◽  
The City ◽  
The Town ◽  
East Central European ◽  
Linguistic Reality

Many east central European towns and cities bear several names, reflecting the ethnic and religious diversity once characteristic of the region. The town chosen in 1772 by the Habsburgs as capital of their newly acquired province of Galicia serves as an example. In the second half of the nineteenth century Ruthenian national populists referred to the city as “Ľviv”; Russophiles designated the city “Ľvov.” For Poles and Polonized Jews the town was “Lwów,” and for Germans as well as German- and Yiddish-speaking Jews the city was “Lemberg.” The ethnic and linguistic reality was, in fact, much less clear than these divisions would suggest. For much of the period of Habsburg rule, language barriers remained permeable. The city's inhabitants were multilingual, often employing different languages depending on the type of communication in which they were engaged. By the

Spirituality in Psychotherapy

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teodóra Tomcsányi ◽  
Viola Sallay ◽  
Zsuzsanna Jáki ◽  
Péter Török ◽  
Tünde Szabó ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Analytical Strategy ◽  
East Central ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Process ◽  
Central European ◽  
Individual Variations ◽  
Spiritual Issues ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
East Central European ◽  
Systemic View

While scientific interest in the relationship between psychotherapeutic praxis and spirituality is growing, there is still little knowledge on this topic, especially in an East Central European context. To explore how psychotherapists understand spiritual issues and experiences they encounter in their work and to learn what happens to these issues in the course of psychotherapy, this study analyses semi-structured interviews with 30 Hungarian psychotherapists. Applying a grounded theory analytical strategy, three main topics were identified: the therapist's attitude towards spirituality leaves a discernible trace in the psychoterapeutic treatment; the therapist influences the way spiritual issues are treated; and the therapist may have a shared spiritual experience with the client. We present individual variations of these experiences as they appear in the code tree. Results are interpreted with reference to a systemic view of the psychotherapeutic process, the intersubjective space of patient and therapist, and the notion of the therapists’ mentalizational capacity.

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