@book{publication-6537,
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {Fink},
  isbn = {978-3-8467-6860-0 },
  series = {Literatur und Ökonomie, Band 14},
  edition = {1},
  url = {https://brill.com/edcollbook-oa/title/69437},
  address = {Paderborn},
  title = {Emotion and Calculation: Marriage Markets and Match Making from Early Modernity to the Present},
  editor = {Esther Schomacher and Annika Nickenig},
  abstract = {Love and economics are usually considered to be opposites: While love is seen as an irrational, unexplainable and ungovernable feeling towards another person, economics is regarded as the art of egoistic, profit-oriented, rational calculations and actions. But are they, really?
By examining a wide range of literary and historical sources throughout European modernity, the papers assembled in this volume investigate how the process of finding a partner or spouse interlaces love and economics. In their analysis of Early Modern marriage legislation, drama, Spanish novellas, Jane Austen’s novels, films, dating apps and more, they reveal major cultural-historical changes in the notions of love and economics, and stress the role that concepts of gender, epistemic discourse, and media play in their interrelated history. Yet, despite their differing findings, they all show one thing: that „opposition“ is far too simple a term to grasp the complicated relation of emotion and calculation.
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Contributions:
Annika Nickenig / Esther Schomacher: How to Earn a Happy Ending. Introduction
Anne Enderwitz: Deferral and Dilation. The Temporal Economies of Desire and Marriage in Early Modern England
Fernanda Alfieri: The Lion, the Donkey, and the Fox. Social Inequality between Spouses in Catholic Marriage Regulations (16th–17th Centuries)
Annika Nickenig: From the Alcahueta to the Algorithm. Matchmakers and Other Figures of Amorous Mediation
Urs Urban: The Artful Lists of Love. Emotional Household and Economy of the Text in Antoine Furetière’s Roman bourgeois (1666)
Agnieszka Komorowska: Negotiating (Re-)marriage and Female Agency in the Golden Age Novella. The Widow as Head of the Household and the Economy of Space and Desire in María de Zayas and Mariana de Carvajal
Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou: “It would be an excellent match, for he was rich and she was handsome”. Jane Austen’s Subversive Exploration of the Business of Marrying
Virginie Gouverneur: Love and Economy in John Stuart Mill’s Approach to Marriage
Jan-Henrik Witthaus: No Marriage Market in Fernando Trueba’s Belle Epoque (1992). The House as an Assemblage of Desire.
Beatrice Schuchardt: “Crazy in Love?” Achievement-Subjects and Love on the Internet Staged by the Spanish and Latin American novela neo-epistolar and the French épistomail
Katja Hettich: Burning down the House. Comic Subversions of Family Economics in Papa ou Maman (FR 2015)
Esther Schomacher: Playing the Marriage Market. Bargains and Beguilement from the Renaissance Stage to Bridgerton},
  keywords = {Hochzeit,Heirat,Liebe,Wirtschaft,Literaturwissenschaft,Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft,Sprachübergreifend},
}
