Das Credo Des Kaufmanns: Uber Poetiken Kreditokonomischen Wissens in Der Prosa Von Freytag Und Keller

Poetry with the banker's pen. Sven Fabre documents unexpected entanglements between literature and credit economics. After years of financial calamities, one could easily forget that credit economics was held in high esteem around the middle of the 19th century. For those who wanted to see the opportunities in that rapidly dawning world needed not a gloomy but a confident eye that recognised the germs of a more beautiful common future - and granted those of their fellow men. It was precisely this business-trained looking that made its career in the literature of German-language realism. The latter, too, intended a grasp of reality that was not under the sign of scepticism, but was able to foresee in the inscrutable and threatening reality the yield that was yet to come.