Tekintetbe venni az élet prózáját- Jósika Júlia munkásságának értékelése a 19. századi emigrációs kulturális transzfer és a szociális normativitás összefüggéseiben

From the endless wealth of 19th century Hungarian literature, I chose an oeuvre that focuses on everyday culture and the everyday consumer of culture. Stepping from canonised authors who have stood the test of time to the articles, short stories and novels of writers of minor and major success, the press life of the 19th century literary marketplace is revealed. They are authors of the everyday and practitioners of practical prose. An increasingly populous group of these writers were emerging female writers, but few of them went on to make writing a real breadwinning occupation. In the following, I will examine the career of one of the more successful Hungarian female writers of the 1850s and 1860s, whose practical prose was one of the most successful. Júlia Jósika, a widely read author of articles on French fashion, found the role best suited to her literary identity and market needs in a two-way cultural transfer during her emigration to Brussels. Her career began with translating Miklós Jósika's novels into German, as Jósika's books were not available on the Hungarian book market during the first years of their emigration. He later published his own works of fiction in Hungarian, edited a calendar and was a regular contributor to several Pest weekly newspapers, covering Western European cultural, scientific and economic news and everyday life in Brussels, and also sought to promote Hungarian literature abroad in French. A constant feature of the discourse on Julia Jósika is her reflection on the practicality of her prose. Some of her works were directly intended for everyday use, while her fictional prose indirectly represented the same normative need to shape the behaviour of readers. The Hungarian cultural adaptation of fashionable publications, which had already become more widespread earlier in Western Europe, cannot be ignored when examining the works of Julia Júlia Jósika. Normative intent and Western influences are perhaps the most important keys to Júlia Jósika's oeuvre