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Author:   Henrik Johnsson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
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9781032747545

ISBN 10:   1032747544
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

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 Chapter 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 Chapter 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 Chapter 3. Dominance and Deviance: Hedda Gabler (1890) August Strindberg’s “For Payment” as intertext Degeneration in Ibsen’s notes to Hedda Gabler The question of Hedda’s sexuality Tesman as failed patriarch Hedda’s need for domination Løvborg’s loss of manhood Sexual competition and exclusivity Hedda’s wasteful death 4. Conclusion

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Henrik Johnsson is Professor of Nordic Literature at Østfold University College, Norway. He holds a PhD in the history of literature from Stockholm University. He is the author of two monographs on the oeuvre of August Strindberg – Strindberg and Horror: Horror Motifs and the Theme of Identity in the Works of August Strindberg (2009) and The Infinite Coherence: August Strindberg’s Occult Science (2015). He is coeditor with Tessel M. Bauduin of the anthology The Occult in Modernist Art, Literature, and Cinema (2018). His current research explores the intersection of horror and desire in Nordic Gothic fiction.

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