OBSERVATIONS ON TRAVEL LITERATURE IN THE ROMANIAN CULTURAL SPACE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
OBSERVATIONS ON TRAVEL LITERATURE IN THE ROMANIAN CULTURAL SPACE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: In the 19th century, in all three Romanian provinces, travel literature represented for writers a work of affirmation of their cultural and literary capacity. Regardless of the form of manifestation (travel memorials, journals, letters, etc.) the travel literature had the purpose of training, documentary value and / or literary value. In the 19th century, a lot of travel was made, first rediscovering each of the Romanian countries, then taking place from one country to another, both in the West and in the East. The travel literature of the 19th century reflects the modernization trend of the society, having a great influence on the modern Romanian literature. We will mention, in these pages, some representative traveling writers of the 19th century, who wrote in Romanian, grouped, in chronological order, according to the historical provinces to which they belong and the type of travel writings they approached.

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