Marianne Thormahlen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1091581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marianne Thormahlen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marianne |
| FAMILY NAME | Thormahlen |
| SIGNATURE | THORMAHLEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Edward Marsh and Modern English Poetry
The name Edward Marsh occasionally crops up in handbooks on English literature, where he is mentioned as the editor of the five volumes of Georgian Poetry that appeared from 1912 to 1922. Georgian poetry, however defined, has been decried for the best part of a century, and Marsh’s reputation among representatives of English Literature has been correspondingly lacklustre. This article presents a radically different view of Marsh, portraying him a…
Reassigning “Modernism”
In academic work on modern British poetry, there is a tacit assumption that any poet belonging to the first rank must needs be a “Modernist”. Consequently, scholars and critics are keen to have poets they admire fit in under the “Modernism” umbrella. That desire has led to an extension of the concept – always notoriously hard to define – to the point of meaninglessness. Proceeding from a conviction that modernity affected every poet in the early …
Charlotte Brontë
Although it is well known that Charlotte Brontë had pronounced political views and interests from childhood onwards, few academics have examined her preoccupation with politics, in the sense of public life and government affairs, at any length. Insofar as critics and scholars have considered her political opinions, they have found her Toryism hard to reconcile with the rebellious spirit in evidence throughout her mature fiction—a spirit that was …
T. S. Eliot, Emotion and the Reader
From the mid-1990s onwards, the humanities and social sciences have devoted a great deal of attention to the operations of the affects, and there has been much talk about “the affective turn”. This article begins by looking at the impact of that phenomenon on scholarly and critical work on T. S. Eliot, a milder impact than one might have expected. It then goes on to investigate the interplay of emotion and intellect in the creation of Eliot's wor…
Christian Ethics in Wuthering Heights
Even the first reviewers of Emily Brontë's novel thought it lacked a moral, and literary critics have struggled to find an ethical dimension in it. Many of them have concluded that the book is “amoral” and that it constitutes a world of its own to which no extraneous rationale can be applied. This article maintains that there is in fact a moral to Brontë's story, and that that moral is consistent with the ethical teachings of Christianity. When t…
In Memoriam Claes Schaar (1920—2012)
Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition
Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition: Backing into the Future STEPHEN PRICKETT Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009 viii + 265 pp., ISBN: 978-0-521-51746-1, £45.00 hb To most people, t
Brontës and Religion
Brontës and Education
The Brontës and Education
All the seven Brontë novels are concerned with education in both senses, that of upbringing as well as that of learning. The Brontë sisters all worked as teachers before they became published novelists. In spite of the prevalence of education in the sisters' lives and fiction, however, this was the first full-length book on the subject when it was published in 2007. Marianne Thormählen explores how their representations of fictional teachers and …
Victorian Studies in Sweden
The Brontës and Religion
This is the first full-length study of religion in the fiction of the Brontës. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the Anglican church in the nineteenth century, Marianne Thormählen shows how the Brontës' familiarity with the contemporary debates on doctrinal, ethical and ecclesiastical issues informs their novels. Divided into four parts, the book examines denominations, doctrines, ethics and clerics in the work of the Brontës. The analyses of the…
The Bronte pseudonyms
Rochester and the fall
(1988). Rochester and the fall: The roots of discontent. English Studies: Vol. 69, No. 5, pp. 396-409
Dry bones can harm no one
(1984). Dry bones can harm no one: Ezekiel XXXVII in The Waste Land V and Ash‐Wednesday II. English Studies: Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 39-47
The Waste Land
Reassigning “Modernism”
In academic work on modern British poetry, there is a tacit assumption that any poet belonging to the first rank must needs be a “Modernist”. Consequently, scholars and critics are keen to have poets they admire fit in under the “Modernism” umbrella. That desire has led to an extension of the concept – always notoriously hard to define – to the point of meaninglessness. Proceeding from a conviction that modernity affected every poet in the early …
Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition
Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition: Backing into the Future STEPHEN PRICKETT Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009 viii + 265 pp., ISBN: 978-0-521-51746-1, £45.00 hb To most people, t
The Waste Land
Dry bones can harm no one
(1984). Dry bones can harm no one: Ezekiel XXXVII in The Waste Land V and Ash‐Wednesday II. English Studies: Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 39-47
Rochester and the fall
(1988). Rochester and the fall: The roots of discontent. English Studies: Vol. 69, No. 5, pp. 396-409
The Bronte pseudonyms
The Brontës and Religion
This is the first full-length study of religion in the fiction of the Brontës. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the Anglican church in the nineteenth century, Marianne Thormählen shows how the Brontës' familiarity with the contemporary debates on doctrinal, ethical and ecclesiastical issues informs their novels. Divided into four parts, the book examines denominations, doctrines, ethics and clerics in the work of the Brontës. The analyses of the…
The Brontës and Education
All the seven Brontë novels are concerned with education in both senses, that of upbringing as well as that of learning. The Brontë sisters all worked as teachers before they became published novelists. In spite of the prevalence of education in the sisters' lives and fiction, however, this was the first full-length book on the subject when it was published in 2007. Marianne Thormählen explores how their representations of fictional teachers and …
Victorian Studies in Sweden
Brontës and Religion
Brontës and Education
Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition
Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition: Backing into the Future STEPHEN PRICKETT Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009 viii + 265 pp., ISBN: 978-0-521-51746-1, £45.00 hb To most people, t
In Memoriam Claes Schaar (1920—2012)
Christian Ethics in Wuthering Heights
Even the first reviewers of Emily Brontë's novel thought it lacked a moral, and literary critics have struggled to find an ethical dimension in it. Many of them have concluded that the book is “amoral” and that it constitutes a world of its own to which no extraneous rationale can be applied. This article maintains that there is in fact a moral to Brontë's story, and that that moral is consistent with the ethical teachings of Christianity. When t…
T. S. Eliot, Emotion and the Reader
From the mid-1990s onwards, the humanities and social sciences have devoted a great deal of attention to the operations of the affects, and there has been much talk about “the affective turn”. This article begins by looking at the impact of that phenomenon on scholarly and critical work on T. S. Eliot, a milder impact than one might have expected. It then goes on to investigate the interplay of emotion and intellect in the creation of Eliot's wor…
Charlotte Brontë
Although it is well known that Charlotte Brontë had pronounced political views and interests from childhood onwards, few academics have examined her preoccupation with politics, in the sense of public life and government affairs, at any length. Insofar as critics and scholars have considered her political opinions, they have found her Toryism hard to reconcile with the rebellious spirit in evidence throughout her mature fiction—a spirit that was …
Reassigning “Modernism”
In academic work on modern British poetry, there is a tacit assumption that any poet belonging to the first rank must needs be a “Modernist”. Consequently, scholars and critics are keen to have poets they admire fit in under the “Modernism” umbrella. That desire has led to an extension of the concept – always notoriously hard to define – to the point of meaninglessness. Proceeding from a conviction that modernity affected every poet in the early …
Edward Marsh and Modern English Poetry
The name Edward Marsh occasionally crops up in handbooks on English literature, where he is mentioned as the editor of the five volumes of Georgian Poetry that appeared from 1912 to 1922. Georgian poetry, however defined, has been decried for the best part of a century, and Marsh’s reputation among representatives of English Literature has been correspondingly lacklustre. This article presents a radically different view of Marsh, portraying him a…
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