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.
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| Language: | English |
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Frankfurt a.M. :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Europaeische Aufklaerung in Literatur und Sprache Series
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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.