Emotion and Calculation : Marriage Markets and Match Making from Early Modernity to the Present

Annika Nickenig

ISBN 10: 3770568605 / ISBN 13: 9783770568604

Published by Brill Fink, Brill | Fink Dez 2025, 2025

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Neuware - 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 inthis volume investigate how the process of finding a partner or spouse interlaces love and economics. In their analysis of Early Modern marriage legislation and drama, Spanish novellas, Jane Austen's novels, 20th Century films, today's dating apps and more, they reveal major cultural-historical changes in the notions of love and economics, and stress the role that epistemic discourses, concepts of gender, and various media play in their interrelated history. 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Emotion and Calculation : Marriage Markets and Match Making from Early Modernity to the Present
• Publisher: Brill Fink, Brill | Fink Dez 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3770568605
• ISBN 13: 9783770568604
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 243W x 162H x 26D millimeters 243 millimeters width by 162 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 683 grams

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Synopsis

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 inthis volume investigate how the process of finding a partner or spouse interlaces love and economics. In their analysis of Early Modern marriage legislation and drama, Spanish novellas, Jane Austen's novels, 20th Century films, today's dating apps and more, they reveal major cultural-historical changes in the notions of love and economics, and stress the role that epistemic discourses, concepts of gender, and various media play in their interrelated history. 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.

About the Author

Annika Nickenig holds the position of guest professor for French and Spanish literature at the Institute for Romance Philology at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focuses on Science and Literature, Narration and Economics, and Material Culture. She recently published Dinge - Gaben - Waren. Der Gegenstand ökonomischen Handelns in den romanischen Literaturen (2022), edited with U. Urban.
Esther Schomacher holds the position of guest professor for Italian literature at the Institute for Romance Literatures and Languages at Humboldt-University of Berlin. Her research focuses on relations between literature and sciences, especially economics, media theory, political theory, and gender studies. Recent publications include The Culture of Money (2024), edited with J. Söffner, and Schrift und Geld um 1900. Italo Svevo's Medien (2021).