A Space of Circulation for the Romanian Literary Identity: The Familia Cultural Magazine in the Years 1865–1880 Cover Image

Uno spazio di circolazione dell’identità letteraria romena: La rivista culturale “Familia” negli anni 1865–1880
A Space of Circulation for the Romanian Literary Identity: The Familia Cultural Magazine in the Years 1865–1880

Author(s): Cristina Balinte
Subject(s): History, Cultural history, History of ideas, Modern Age, 19th Century
Published by: Academia Română – Centrul de Studii Transilvane
Keywords: circulation of genres and literary works; comparative affinities and influences; Iosif Vulcan (1841–1907); national identity; national revival; Romanian literature; the Familia cultural magazine;

Summary/Abstract: the elites. One of these enthusiastic intellectuals, Iosif Vulcan, has become in the Familiacultural magazine that he initiated at Pest, in 1865, an observer first, then a promoter of Romanian institutions at their beginnings. By putting into circulation news about the emergence of literary productions, not yet constituted as values, he informed, and kept informed the Romanian public in Transylvania. In this paper, I focused on the first fifteen years of Familia, taking into account its positioning as a Romanian language magazine abroad, where the Romanian national literature was seen from beyond the political borders, but within the sensibility of a common historical space, as the central part of national identity. In order to provide a more appropriate image on the period (1865–1880), I tried to follow in a organized manner the dynamics of genres, the affirmation as well as the legitimation of writers, the decisive function of phenomena of intellectual association.

  • Issue Year: XXVIII/2019
  • Issue No: Suppl. 1
  • Page Range: 145-160
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Italian