Caroline Haux Senior lecturer, associate professor

I lecture and supervise students at all levels, often on literature and society.

In my doctoral thesis, Developing. Writing, Consumption and Sexuality in Karin Boye’s Astarte and Henry Parland’s To Pieces (2013), [Framkallning. Skrift, konsumtion och sexualitet i Karin Boye’s Astarte och Henry Parland’s Sönder] I study two modernistic novels, one from Sweden and one from Finland, in connection to their actuality – how the novels demonstrate themselves as examples on the contemporary and new. Focus is mainly threefold: how a logic of the commodity is permeating the texts, through which as an effect also gender and style are materialized; how new media such as amateur photographs and shop windows functions as aesthetic technologies for the novels and finally, how the novels themselves reflect on the way in which it is possible to represent this societal moment in history.

My current research within a Sabbatical project financed by The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond) focuses on citizenship, economy and biopolitics in Scandinavian 19th century literature, mainly the novel: rather than reading novels as containers

for ideas and ideologies, the project will look upon them as forms of writing practices through which a citizen subject is construed.

Within the project, “The Politics of Border”, I investigate power relations and spatiality in Nordic late 19th century fiction for girls and boys, through the prisms of postcolonial theory. 

Earlier projects:

Part of the research project Enchanting Nations: Commodity Market, Folklore and Nationalism in Scandinavian Literature 1830–1850, funded by The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond), which focuses on showing the significance of literature, particularly the novel, in spreading nationalism and the concept of the nation in early 19th century Scandinavia. My area of research connects nationalism and discourses on nation with economy: the commodity market, consumption and political economy of the time. To avoid reinstating nationalism on a methodological level, transnational articulations of national discourses are actualized.

Part of the research projectAllegory, gender, society: functions and modes of writing in Swedish 20th century literature [Allegori, genus, samhälle: funktioner och skrivsätt i svensk 1900-talslitteratur], funded by Swedish Research Council [Vetenskapsrådet], prof. Ulf Olsson, 2000­–2004. My part in the project resulted in my doctoral thesis (see above).

Publications:

Articles in journals

”Sjukdomens gränsland. Studie av gränsen från två sidor i Torgny Lindgrens roman Hummelhonung” [

Borderland of disease: analyses of the border from two directions in Torgny Lindgren’s Hummelhonung]

, årg. 142, 2021, 140: 96–132 (Open Access)

https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1643761/FULLTEXT01.pdf

“’To Die for King and Country’:

Nationalism and the Citizen Subject from a Perspective of War

in Three Poems in Runeberg’s Fänrik Ståls sägner”.

, Volume 93, Nr 2, Summer 2021, pp. 187–215

(Open Access)

https://doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.93.2.0187

“

Writing Women on the Verge of Individualization. Citizen Subject, Consumption and Power in the 19th-Century Swedish Epistolary Novel”,

, 2021, Vol 29, No 1, 17–34 (Open access)

https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2020.1825118

”Medborgarsubjektets ekonomi. Subjektivitet, biomakt och konsumtionsmönster i två tidiga 1800-talsromaner” [The economy of citizen subject.

Subjectivity, bio power and patterns of consumption in two early 19th century novels], Samlaren.

, 2019, 140: 57–80 (Open Access)

https://svelitt.se/samlaren/2019

”Nationell kroppsekonomi. Statlig kontroll och produktivt begär i Emilie Flygare-Carléns Rosen på Tistelön” [National body economics.

Governmental control and productive desire in Emilie Flygare-Carlén´s The rose of thistle island.], Edda, 2018, 105 (3): 203–218 (Open Access) doi:10.18261/ISSN.1500-1989-2018-03-03

https://www.idunn.no/edda/2018/03/nationell_kroppsekonomi

”Bygdeidyllens gotiska maskineri. Nationell identitet och fluktuerande bytesvärde i Fredrika Bremers I Dalarne.

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The Country Life Novel’s gothic machinery. National identity and fluctuating exchange value in Fredrika Bremer’s Life in Dalecarlia

http://ojs.ub.gu.se/ojs/index.php/tfl/article/view/4562/3605

”Förförelsens ekonomi. Om konsumtion i Fredika Bremer’s Famillen H*** och Carl Jonas Love Almqvist’s Araminta May” [

An economy of seduction. On consumption in Fredrika Bremer’s Famillen H*** and Carl Jonas Love Almqvist’s Araminta May

], i Tidskrift för litteraturvetenskap, TFL, 2014, 3-4, 17–26 (Open Access)

http://ojs.ub.gu.se/ojs/index.php/tfl/article/view/3229/2694

Book Chapters

2003: ”Spegelscen. Allegori och fotografi i Henry Parlands Sönder” [”Mirror Scene.

Allegory and photography in Henry Parland’s To peaces”], in Allegori, estetik, politik. Texter om litteratur [Allegory, Aesthetics, Politics. Texts on Literature], edited by Ulf Olsson, Per Anders Wiktorsson.

Stockholm/Stehag: Symposion, 2003

2001: ”Estetiskt våld. Edith Södergran, offret och den konstnärliga utsagan.”

[“Aesthetic violence. Edith Södergran, sacrifice and the literary statement”] in Speglingar.

 (Mirrror Images. Swedish 20th Century Literature Meets Biblical Tradition.), edited by Stefan Klint och Kari Syreeni, Skellefteå: Norma, 2001