 During the 1848–1849 revolution he published a brochure "Nekoja glavna pitanja našeg vremena" ("Some major issues of our time"), in which he pointed out the contemporary political issues in Croatia, while in the brochure "Godina 1850. u Hrvatskoj" ("The year 1850 in Croatia", 1851) he opposed the centralization and Germanization.Vukotinović's literary work began in "Danica", where in 1835 he published the first Illyrian patriotic poem "Pesma Horvatov vu Glogovi leto 1813", known by verse "Nek se hrusti šaka mala".He published collections "Pjesme i pripovjetke" ("Poems and short stories", 1838), "Ruže i trnje" ("Roses and thorns", 1842), "Pesme" ("Poems", 1847) and "Trnule" (1867), and a collection of historical short stories "Pošasnost ugarsko-hrvatska" (1844).