Landscape, Region, Nation

The main topic of the paper is the relation between landscape and literature in the context of literary history writing, focusing on the Hungarian national literature in 19th century. My research primarily focused on the modern concept of the landscape and that genre, poetic and historical consequences, which are related to the development of this concept (for example: landscape poems, regional prose and national landscapes in the literature). And the study also examines the applicability of the landscape (or geographical region) as a category of the literary history. The argumentation tries to validate historical and methodological aspect at the same time in connection with the literary representation of the characteristic Hungarian landscapes and the uses of regional aspects in literary history, focusing on the importance of regions within nation-state.