The literary representation of the economic in the German novel, 1855 # 1901 KU Leuven
This dissertation presents a new perspective for the study of the German bourgeois realistic prose, by parallelizing literary poetics, financial epistemology, commercial procedures of observation and registration. Based on a corpus of literary programmes, economic studies, commercial and financial manuals, a poetology of credit-economic knowledge is first established. The nexus of these apparently very different paradigms of aesthetics and ...