The intersection of material and poetic economy
Subtitle: Gustav Freytag's Soll und Haben and Adalbert Stifter's Nachsommer
By: Anna Helm.
Series: North American studies in nineteenth-century German literature -- 42
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783039110841
Subjects: Freytag, Gustav, -- 1816-1895; Stifter, Adalbert, -- 1805-1868; Money in literature; Economics in literature; Aesthetics in literature; Economics and literature -- Germany -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the discourse of money in literature; title: Part one: Soll und Haben, the pursuit of bourgeois material and poetic wealth: textualization through familial and financial ties; poesy and commodity exchange; industrial production and labor; consumption, wealth, and pleasure; representation, credit, and credibility; bookkeeping and the fair price; the feminine domain; the life and death of money; the Geheimbuch and poetic realism; title: Part two: Der nachsommer, the economy of aesthetics: the father's house and aesthetic education; money, consumption, and the capitalist economy; production, agriculture, and interaction with nature; the accumulation of wealth and collecting; the fair price and the silence of the market; naming, signification, and the creation of meaning; work, usefulness, and the productive use of time; the economy of realism; inheritance and the sublimation of the fathers.