Protagonists of Production in Preindustrial European Literature (1700-1800) : Male and Female Entrepreneurs, Craftspeople, and Workers.

Focusing on the European Enlightenment movement with a special emphasis on Spain, this volume sheds light on how both male and female figures working in production are portrayed in a positive way by 18th-century novels, plays, economic tracts and in the press.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schuchardt, Beatrice.
Other Authors: von Tschilschke, Christian.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Europaeische Aufklaerung in Literatur und Sprache Series
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505 0 |a Cover -- Series Information -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Prologue (Thomas Apolte) -- Introduction: European Enlightenment as the Era of Both Male and Female Protagonists of Production (1700-1800) (Beatrice Schuchardt, Christian von Tschilschke) -- Section 1 Historical and Theoretical Groundings -- From otium to nec-otium: Vile Trades, Dishonorable Entrepreneurs. The Case of Spain (Joaquín Ocampo Suárez-​Valdés, Patricia Suárez Cano) -- Poverty Between Dignity and Criminalization in Early-Modern France and Spain: Attempts to Include and Exclude the Poor (Manfred Tietz) -- The Nation as Economic Agent in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Apologetic Texts (Andreas Gelz) -- Section 2 Male Protagonists of Trade and Industry: Of Businessmen and Entrepreneurs -- The Dictionnaire universel de commerce (1723) and Savary's Mercantilism in the Writings of Carl Günther Ludovici (Christoph Strosetzki) -- Doing Business in the Spanish Antiguo Régimen: The Case of Juan de Goyeneche y Gastón: Between Profit, Heroism and Political Commitment (Jan-​Henrik Witthaus) -- Business and Businessmen in Eighteenth-Century Spanish Drama (María Jesús García Garrosa) -- Goethe's Wilhelm Meister, Rousseau's Emile, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe: The Embarrassment of Choosing a Profession (Claire Pignol) -- Between State-Managed Reforms and Private Utopia: The Entrepreneurial Projects of Pablo de Olavide (Christian von Tschilschke) -- Section 3 Female Protagonists of Production -- Two Women, Two Ways: Economy and Theater in Enlightenment Spain (David T. Gies) -- Maja's Labors Lost in Ramón de la Cruz's sainetes (Ana Hontanilla) -- Work It, Baby! Economics and Emotions on the Marriage Market in Goldoni's La Locandiera and Trilogia della villeggiatura (Esther Schomacher) -- Section 4 Economic Protagonists of Both Sexes. 
505 8 |a Staging Spanish Political Economy as Figural Types: From Civilian Heroes to Male and Female Protagonists of Production (Beatrice Schuchardt) -- "Spectatorial" Entrepreneurs in the Moral Essays of the 18th Century (Klaus-​Dieter Ertler) -- Section 5 Robinsonades -- Robinson Crusoe's Economy (Nils Goldschmidt, Hermann Rauchenschwandtner) -- The Literary Genealogy of the Working Man: From Early Modern Castaways and Settlers to Robinson Crusoe (Urs Urban) -- Defoe, Economically Constructed Property, and Reputational Credit (Natalie Roxburgh) -- Section 6 Protagonists of Agriculture and the Influence of Physiocracy -- Nature as a Protagonist of Production in Jovellanos's Informe de Ley Agraria and Diario - A "Measurement of the Sublime" (Susanne Schlünder) -- Pastoral Economies. Natural vs. Human Productivity in Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie (Annika Nickenig) -- An Idealistic, but Failing Protagonist of Production: Claude-François-Adrien de Lezay-Marnésia and His Physiocratic Project in the New World (Anna Isabell Wörsdörfer) -- Epilogue: The Literary Liberalism of the Bourgeoise (Deirdre Nansen McCloskey) -- Notes on Contributors -- Series Index. 
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