RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Molda, Rastislav
T1 Exploring Slavic Countries. Traveling and Travel Writing of Štúr's Generation
JF Historica Olomucensia
YR 2012
VO 43
IS 3
SP 79
OP 100
UL https://historica.upol.cz/artkey/hol-201203-0005.php
AB The study focuses on traveling and travel writing of members of Štúr's generation. They wandered not only the territory of today's Slovakia but visited also neighbouring Slavic countries that were a part of the Habsburg monarchy. This had multiple functions in Štúr's generation. The most important one was sharing of ideas and information. Traveling became one of the ways to promote the national revival movement.Travelogues of Štúr's generation are romantic national revival papers written in the spirit of the Slavic idea which applies also to the description of regions they wandered. The most important issues they dealt with were national issues along with the questions of confession, problems related to the raising of public awarnes and education level, and education system. Some of the travelogues (by Nosák-Nezabudov in particular but also those by Hurban, Dobšinský, Kutlík and others) have a strong hostile attitude toward Jews.All these travels gave Štúr's generation valuable experience helping them to maintain and deepen mutual contacts, as well as they gave them new ideas of how to concentrate their own national forces. Traveling and travel writing of this period should be seen as a duty of ambassadors of an organised movement who thus followed pre-defined objectives.