Presbourg, Pest, Vienne: réseaux de diffusion de l’imprimé français 1770–1800
Pressburg, Pest, Vienna: The Dissemination Network for French Books (1770–1800)
Author(s): Olga GranasztóiSubject(s): International relations/trade, 18th Century, Sociology of Literature
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro českou literaturu
Keywords: French Books; Book Market; Société typographique de Neuchâtel (STN); Hungary; Vienna; Habsburg Monarchy;
Summary/Abstract: The way French books reached their readers in Hungary is one of the major issues for those who study the dissemination of French-language publications in the 18th century. Recent research has demonstrated that Hungarian cities played a key role in providing the domestic book market with foreign books. As a result, Vienna cannot be considered as the only place in the book trade. The article studies the relations between the Pest bookseller Johann Michael Weingand (and his business partner Köpf) and the Société typographique in Neuchâtel (Switzerland), as well as the links between Viennese booksellers and that society. This analysis enables the author to draw a map of the diffusion of French books towards Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy, and to show that Vienna was not an essential center in the supply of French books to Hungary, as its pre-eminent political and cultural position could lead us to suppose.
Journal: Cornova
- Issue Year: 03/2013
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 77-84
- Page Count: 8
- Language: French
