Protagonists of Production in Preindustrial European Literature (1700-1800)

Beatrice Schuchardt is a scholar of Spanish and French Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Dresden, Germany. Her areas of interests include the anthropologization of enlightened economic theory in Spanish 18th century theatre, Latin American media icons, Postcolonial Theory, trauma and dictatorship in Latin American detective novels, and performance subjects in the genre of Spanish, Latin American and French epistomail.Christian von Tschilschke holds the chair of Romance Literary Studies (Spanish) at the University of Münster, Germany. His research interests include the relationship between literature and media (film/television), theory and practices of intermediality, documentarism and docufiction, French, Spanish and Latin-American cinema, Spanish literature and culture of the 18th century, French and Spanish contemporary literature as well as the Spanish discourse about Africa.

• Thomas Apolte— Historical and Theoretical Groundings— Male Protagonists of Trade and Industry: Of Businessmen and Entrepreneurs —Female Protagonists of Production —Economic Protagonists of both sexes—Robinsonades—Protagonists of Agriculture and the Influence of Physiocracy—The Literary Liberalism of the Bourgeoise .