Emotion and Calculation

Marriage Markets and Match Making from Early Modernity to the Present

Edited by Annika Nickenig Edited by Esther Schomacher

Book cover: Emotion and Calculation

Extent: 300 pages

Publisher: Brill | Fink

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Literatur und Okonomie

Series volume number: 14

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2025)

ISBN: 9783770568604

6.1 x 9.25 inches

Price: $58.00

In stock

It is one of the greatest challenges facing society in the 21st century to address the question: How do we want to live? How do we want to deal with the pressing issues of our time, how much responsibility can and do we want to take on for future generations? And finally: What Haltung do we want to adopt?

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).

  • Edited by Annika Nickenig
  • Edited by Esther Schomacher