Michal Charypar
Kateřina Jeřábková’s Fiction Library as Publishing Company
Recent works on the Bibliotéka českých původních románů historických i novověkých ('Library of Czech original historical and modern novels') by the Prague printer and publisher Kateřina Jeřábková - including one work by Zuzana Urválková - tend to characterize it as a key literary project of the 1850s that, in its time, provoked an extraordinary critical response. Much remains to be clarified, however, about the circumstances under which the library, in the context of the contemporary book market, was established, promoted, operated, and eventually went defunct at the turn of 1860 and 1861. The present study addresses this issue by examining a number of printed reports, advertisements, publishers' statements, and similar materials. With some exceptions, documentation from the publisher's estate has not been preserved.
Keywords: 19th-century Czech literature - Prague publishing houses - the novel - Kateřina Jeřábková - Božena Němcová - Václav Kliment Klicpera - Prokop Chocholoušek
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