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Contents

Gábor Vaderna: Language, Media and Politics in the Hungarian Kingdom between 1770 and 1820
István Fried: Mehrsprachigkeit in den ersten Jahrzehnten der ungarischen Zeitschriftenliteratur
Suzana Coha: History of Journalism in the Croatian Lands from the Beginnings until the Croatian National Revival
Eva Kowalská: Die erste slowakische Zeitung Presspůrské nowiny zwischen Journalismus und Patriotismus
Andrea Seidler: Höfische Berichterstattung in der Preßburger Zeitung. Reflexionen über die mediale Präsenz des Kaiserpaares Franz I. Stephan und Maria Theresias in den frühen Jahren des Periodikums
Réka Lengyel: The Newspaper as a Medium for Developing National Language, Literature, and Science. Mátyás Rát and the Magyar Hírmondó between 1780 and 1782
Annamária Biró: Siebenbürgische Präsenz in der Presse Westungarns. Die Korrespondenten Johann Seivert und József Benkő
Gábor Vaderna: Möglichkeiten der Urbanität in der ungarischen Zeitschrift Mindenes Gyűjtemény
Rumen István Csörsz: The Literary Program of István Sándor and the Periodical Sokféle (1791-1808)
Olga Granasztói: The Paper Hazai Tudósítások and the Beginnings of the Cult of Monuments Through the Lens of Ferenc Kazinczy's Articles (1806-1808)
Béla Hegedüs: Literary History as an Argument for the Existence of Literature. Miklós Révai's Call in Magyar Hírmondó and Költeményes Magyar Gyűjtemény
Margit Kiss: Magyar Hírmondó and Dictionary Proposals
András Döbör: Sándor Szacsvay's Underworld Dialogues as Political Publicisms in the 1789 Year of the Enlightenment-Era Newspaper Magyar Kurír
Piroska Balogh: Johann Ludwig Schedius's Literärischer Anzeiger and the Tradition of Critical Journalism in the Kingdom of Hungary around 1800
Norbert Béres: "Roman und was besser ist, als Roman". Über die Vertriebsstrategien des Romans
Katalin Czibula: Der Beginn der Theaterkritik in der deutsch- und ungarischsprachigen Presse in Westungarn
Ágnes Dóbék: Reports on European Publishing Culture in the Journals of Western Hungary
Zsófia Bárány: Catholic and Protestant Union-Plans in the Kingdom of Hungary between 1817 and 1841. The Golden Age of "Public Opinion" and the Memory of the Reformation in Veszprém County
Index

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Blurb

The period covered in this volume was particularly important in Hungarian cultural history regarding the interactions of print media with other social and cultural formations. The expansion of the market of media products was accompanied by the acceleration of social communication and the broadening of its participant base. Weekly newspapers and periodicals published only a few times a year followed international patterns. As new reading habits and editorial-authorial roles emerged, an increasing number of people took advantage of the new opportunities to publish. Essays in this collection reveal the cultural dynamism of multilingual media in the Hungarian Kingdom, as well as the centrality of the press to our understanding of the period from 1770 to 1820.

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