Bernard Shaw's Fiction, Material Psychology, and Affect Shaw, Freud, Simmel /

• Main Author: Watt, Stephen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries
• Subjects: Theater.; Theatre and Performance Studies.

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,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: On Money, Psychology, and Affect in Bernard Shaw's Writing
• 2. The Materialist Dream Theatre: Affect and Value, Freud and Simmel
• 3. Unashamed: Negative Affect, Money, and Performance in Immaturity and The Irrational Knot
• 4. Entr'acte at the Theatre: Marriage, Money, and Desire in Love Among the Artists
• 5. Cashel Byron's Blush-and Others
• 6. The Antinomies of An Unsocial Socialist
• 7. Postscript: Embodied Shaws.