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