The Image of the Cluj Society as Reflected in the 19th Century British Travel Accounts

The image of the Cluj Society as Reflected in the 19th Century British Travel Accounts The study analyses the perceptions of Cluj's urban society reflected in the 19th Century British Travel. The research is based on coordinates such as the relation between the social expectations and the encountered realities, by the British travellers, Other coordinates of this study are the ratio between the pre-existing mental structures and the discovered realities, the shaping of stereotypes and the ideological influences in this respect. The structure of this study overlaps on issues approached by the British travel accounts in the second half of the 19th Century: The analysis includes topics like: the local elite, the ethnic and social coordinates, the status of women, the education, local personalities, and the clergymen.