PUBLIC TOPOS IN THE NOTES OF ROMANIAN TRAVELERS IN THE COUNTRY DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
PUBLIC TOPOS IN THE NOTES OF ROMANIAN TRAVELERS IN THE COUNTRY DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: Travel literature gradually took shape, as Romanian intellectuals went throughout the 19th century to Blaj, Cluj, Rome, Vienna, sometimes even further. But from an early age there was a natural curiosity for the state of affairs over the mountains, from the country to which they felt indestructibly connected and which represents them as a nation. In this context, the public topos captured in their testimonies, especially the convivial ones - the hotel, the restaurant, the terrace, the pub, the brewery, the confectionery - take shape and are gradually complicated by the details concerning them: location, architecture, atmosphere inside them, human types highlighted, all summing up particular functions and meanings.

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