Diskuse o realismu "o patro níž" : pojetí realismu v myšlení Terézy Novákové a Sofie Podlipské

This study deals with educational texts of two Czech women writers who formed the spiritual climate of the Czech culture in the second half of the nineteenth century – Sofie Podlipská and Teréza Nováková. It demonstrates that the discussion of the varied and inherently dynamic nature of literary realism in the Czech lands was spread to a wider readership through the cultural education and the involvement of the forming women's movement. The coexistence and the interpenetration of different discourses is particularly evident from the example of the analyzed magazine Domácí hospodyně (The Housekeeper). The initiative for its establishment came from a lingering romantic idea personified in Olomouc by Jindřich Wankel. The composition of the magazine, its focus and the personality of the editor Miloslava Procházková unequivocally refer to the Biedermeier period. This, however, did not prevent the publishing of articles and essays on realism and naturalism, or those advocating these movements.