Abstract
The book brings many new findings about both production and reception of Karel Havlíček's journalistic work. Its first part explores three topics in six chapters: (a) the way Havlíček transformed letters sent to the editor into newspaper articles and what strategies he used in recruiting and maintaining authors, (b) the way his newspaper Národní noviny rendered ecclesiastical topics, and (c) journalistic activities of Havlíček's contemporaries J.
K. Tyl and I.
L. Kober and the relations between their periodicals and those published by Havlíček.
The second part investigates the reflection of Havlíček's life and work in the culture of three emancipating nations: Slovenians, Lusatian Sorbs, and Finns (form the middle of 19th to the beginning of the 20th centuries).