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

• Superior document: Europaeische Aufklaerung in Literatur und Sprache Series ; v.28
• Author: Schuchardt, Beatrice.
• TeilnehmendeR: von Tschilschke, Christian.
• Place / Publishing House: Frankfurt a.M. : : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Europaeische Aufklaerung in Literatur und Sprache Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 pages)

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.

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.