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- Examines the relationship between materialism, feeling, and emotion throughout Shaw's canon
- Compares the work of Shaw, Sigmund Freud, and Georg Simmel in relation to human subjectivity
- Illuminates the life and work of Shaw as well as a number of eminent contemporaries, such as Charles Darwin
Part of the book series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries (BSC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book traces the effects of materiality - including money and its opposite, poverty - on the psychical lives of George Bernard Shaw and his characters. While this study focuses on the protagonists of the five novels Shaw wrote in the late 1870s and early 1880s, it also explores how materialism, feeling, and emotion are linked throughout his entire canon. At the same time, it demonstrates how Shaw’s conceptions of human subjectivity parallel those of two of his contemporaries, Sigmund Freud and Georg Simmel. In particular, this book explores how theories of so-called 'marginal economics' influence fin de siècle thought about human psychology and the sociology of the modern metropolis, particularly London.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA
Stephen Watt
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bernard Shaw’s Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect
Book Subtitle: Shaw, Freud, Simmel
Authors: Stephen Watt
Series Title: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71513-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71512-4Published: 15 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10067-4Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71513-1Published: 05 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-5811
Series E-ISSN: 2634-582X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 235
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theatre and Performance Studies