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

by Stephen Watt

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319715127
• ISBN13: 9783319715124
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"