Olvasótól – olvasóig. Észrevételek a magyar olvasástörténeti kutatások aktuális kérdéseihez
Reader to Reader: Notes on Recent Questions of the Hungarian History of Reading

Summary/Abstract: In the past few years several comprehensive studies on the history of reading have been published in Hungary. Among other conclusions, these studies reveal that scholarship on the post-1750 period is still much fragmented. Without any predetermined agenda, all the studies in this journal issue focus on the time around the turn of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century, an often neglected period in the scholarship of the history of reading. On one hand, the diversity of the studies show the widening of the horizon in Hungarian book research. On the other hand, they also suggest that the history of reading in this period is more often approached from the angle of literary history than that of social history. The biggest challenge of the history of reading research is reconstructing a practice that leaves so few traces in time. The question for the time being is whether it is satisfactory to understand what was available from the available book market in this period, for whom, and in what way.

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