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Ibsen and Degeneration : Familial Decay and the Fall of Civilization



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Autore: Johnsson Henrik Visualizza persona
Titolo: Ibsen and Degeneration : Familial Decay and the Fall of Civilization Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Taylor & Francis Group, , 2024
©2024
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 pages)
Disciplina: 839.822/6
Soggetto topico: Degeneration in literature
Heredity in literature
Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Morel and the rise of degeneration discourse -- Marriage, family, and incest -- Disease, diathesis, and syphilis -- Energetic economy and the “fixed fund of energy” theory -- What does Ibsen do with degeneration discourse? -- A note on the form and scope of the book -- 1 The Rot of the Bourgeois Body: Ghosts (1881) -- Ibsen’s commentary on Ghosts -- The raising of bourgeois children -- Class, health, and sex -- Bourgeois patriarchy and Helene’s independence -- Alving’s decline and fall -- Osvald’s energetic inheritance -- Regine and regeneration -- 2 The Fall of the Old Order: Rosmersholm (1886) -- Hvide heste and its relationship to Rosmersholm -- Rosmer, Kroll, and the fall of the old order -- Marriage as the scene of threats to the social fabric -- Strength and weakness of will -- Brendel and the forces of entropy -- The useless deaths of Rosmer and Rebekka -- 3 Dominance and Deviance: Hedda Gabler (1890)
Sommario/riassunto: Henrik Ibsen's plays were written at a critical juncture in late nineteenth-century European culture. By reading these three plays from a fresh perspective, Ibsen and Degeneration sheds new light on some of Ibsen's most enduring contributions to world drama.
Titolo autorizzato: Ibsen and Degeneration  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9781040098974
1040098975
9781003470731
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Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910874781003321
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Serie: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature Series